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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aisha Adigun, B.Sc., M.D.[2]
Overview
Historical Perspective
Discovery
- There is limited information about the historical perspective of chest pain.
The first recorded description of chest pain was given by Benivieni, a Florentine physician in the early 1500s. He documented a woman that was "sometimes troubled in her heart"Eslick GD (January 2001). "Chest pain: a historical perspective". Int. J. Cardiol. 77 (1): 5–11. doi:10.1016/s0167-5273(00)00395-8. PMID 11150620..
- Andreas Vesalius in 1555 associated "a sad feeling and pain in the heart" with heart diseaseMesquita ET, Souza Júnior CV, Ferreira TR (2015). "Andreas Vesalius 500 years--A Renaissance that revolutionized cardiovascular knowledge". Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc. 30 (2): 260–5. doi:10.5935/1678-9741.20150024. PMC 4462973. PMID 26107459..
- The first concise account of angina pectoris was given by the then Earl of Clarendon when he described his father's illness"References in Initial historical descriptions of the angina pectoris1 - Journal of Emergency Medicine"..
"He was seized by so sharp a pain in the left arm . . . that the torment made him pale as he were dead, and he used to say that he passed the pangs of death and that he should die in one of those fits; as soon as it was over, which was quickly, he was the cheerfullest man living . . ."
- Angina pectoris was described by a medical practitioner when Dr. William Heberden read his paper to the College of Physicians in London on 21 July 1768.
- The association between coronary artery disease and chest pain was made by Edward Jenner in 1788 when he noticed a thickening of coronary arteries on the autopsy of subjects who had died from angina pectoris"ajph.aphapublications.org"..
- In 1879, Heinrich Quincke was the first to discover the association between chest pain and the development of esophageal reflux disease"GERD: A practical approach | Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine"."Introductory Chapter: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease | IntechOpen"..
Landmark Events in the Development of Treatment Strategies
Impact on Cultural History
Famous Cases
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