A diagnosis of myocardial infarction or spontaneous angina could never be made on the basis of a single feature, but demanded careful evaluation of the total evidence provided by the site and character of the chest pain, the associated symptoms, the clinical findings, and the electrocardiogram. A...
Patients with symptoms of heart disease have similar outcomes in terms of death and major cardiac conditions regardless of whether they undergo a functional stress test or a computed tomographic scan, but the scan may be better at ruling out the need for subsequent tests and procedures in patients...