EDITOR,—I enjoyed the prospective study by Cooke et al (Gut 1998;42:323–329) on the relation between oesophageal abnormalities and chest pain in patients with normal coronary angiograms and with angina pectoris. This study confirms the findings of previous studies1 2 that the oesophagus is responsible for chest pain in a high percentage of patients with coronary artery disease, and that an episode of gastro-oesophageal reflux nearly always triggers this pain. However, no explanation for this unex-pected finding has been given. The tentative proposition that it is the result of a decrease
ALTHOUGH it has for long been recognized that distension of the lower end of the oesophagus produces...
Chest pain (CP) is the major presenting symptom of coronary artery disease (CAD) wherein history rem...
Although atypical chest pain has been well described in the Western population, its frequency in Chi...
We conducted a prospective study to determine the role of the esophagus in causing chest pain in pat...
The close anatomical relations of the heart and oesophagus, and the similarity of symptoms attributa...
*This article was presented as abstract form at the ACC 2005. *The main massage in this article is t...
and doctor alike. It confirms the growing belief that the term syndrome X is no more than a flag of ...
Analysis of the association between symptoms and abnormal oesophageal function is a central part of ...
Objective: To describe factors influencing chest pain expression in patients with cardiac or noncard...
AbstractObjectives. The present study sought to determine whether myocardial contractile abnormaliti...
During the past decade, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease has been shown to be the most common ident...
www.cmj.hr Aim To investigate the frequencies of different and rele-vant underlying etiologies of ch...
Chest pain and normal coronary angiography is seen in up 30 % of patients undergoing the investigati...
Approximately 20% of patients undergoing diagnostic angiography for the evaluation of chest pain are...
I IMPORTANCE1: After coronary artery disease, the esophageal motility disorders are the 2nd most com...
ALTHOUGH it has for long been recognized that distension of the lower end of the oesophagus produces...
Chest pain (CP) is the major presenting symptom of coronary artery disease (CAD) wherein history rem...
Although atypical chest pain has been well described in the Western population, its frequency in Chi...
We conducted a prospective study to determine the role of the esophagus in causing chest pain in pat...
The close anatomical relations of the heart and oesophagus, and the similarity of symptoms attributa...
*This article was presented as abstract form at the ACC 2005. *The main massage in this article is t...
and doctor alike. It confirms the growing belief that the term syndrome X is no more than a flag of ...
Analysis of the association between symptoms and abnormal oesophageal function is a central part of ...
Objective: To describe factors influencing chest pain expression in patients with cardiac or noncard...
AbstractObjectives. The present study sought to determine whether myocardial contractile abnormaliti...
During the past decade, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease has been shown to be the most common ident...
www.cmj.hr Aim To investigate the frequencies of different and rele-vant underlying etiologies of ch...
Chest pain and normal coronary angiography is seen in up 30 % of patients undergoing the investigati...
Approximately 20% of patients undergoing diagnostic angiography for the evaluation of chest pain are...
I IMPORTANCE1: After coronary artery disease, the esophageal motility disorders are the 2nd most com...
ALTHOUGH it has for long been recognized that distension of the lower end of the oesophagus produces...
Chest pain (CP) is the major presenting symptom of coronary artery disease (CAD) wherein history rem...
Although atypical chest pain has been well described in the Western population, its frequency in Chi...