pseudo-angina

The essential difference lies in the fact that pseudo-angina is independent of structural disease of the heart and coronary arteries.

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An attack of pseudo-angina may be agonizing, the pain radiating through the chest and into the left arm, but the patient does not usually assume the motionless attitude of true angina, and the duration of the seizure is usually much longer.

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-- In connexion with angina pectoris, a far more common condition must be mentioned that has now universally received the name of pseudo-angina.

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In pseudo-angina the starting-point is not the heart but some peripheral or visceral nerve.

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