Coronary heart disease differential diagnosis

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

There are a large number of causes of chest pain that coronary heart disease must be distinguished from.

Differentiating Coronary heart disease from other Diseases

• Air embolism
• Anomalous origin of coronary artery
• Aortic dissection
• Aortic stenosis
• Atrial myxoma
• Chest trauma
• Cocaine
• Collagen vascular disease
• Coronary artery dissection
• Endocarditis
• Hypercoagulable state
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Hypotension
• Luetic aortitis
• Nitrate withdrawal
• Raynaud's Disease
• Takayasu's Disease
• Thrombi from:

  • Catheter
  • Left atrium
  • Left ventricle
  • Prosthetic valves

• Variant angina