FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 338:897-903 March 26, 1998 Number 13 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited PubMed Citation

Presentation of Case

A 46-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of unstable angina pectoris.

The patient had been well until three weeks earlier, when he began to have episodes of anterior and posterior chest pain that radiated to the right arm. They occurred only on exertion, were relieved by rest, and lasted for a few minutes to over a half hour. During the several days before admission, the chest pain increased in frequency and severity. On the day before admission, the patient entered another hospital, where no evidence of acute myocardial infarction was found. Cardiac catheterization revealed that the pulmonary-capillary wedge . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Gus J. Vlahakes's Diagnosis

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnosis

References

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.