[Characteristics of anginal pains in chronic ischemic heart disease]

A special questionnaire chart was used to analyse the "structure" of the cardiac pain syndrome in 77 patients with ischaemic heart disease and atypical pains: protracted attacks were recorded in 53 (out of them 13 had Prinzmetall angina pectoris), 11 had attacks with a vegetative crisis background. In 6 patients localization of pains was atypical, in 15 the pains bore the character of cardialgia. To avoid diagnostic errors the physician must analyze thoroughly subjective feelings of the patient with pains in the heart.