Hi guys, I like to share health tips about heart attack symptoms. Diagnosis in heart disease can usually be made from a carefully taken history and a detailed physical examination, but in some cases accessory methods of examination, such as radiology and electrocardiography, are required, and occasionally it is necessary to make use of highly specialized techniques such as cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography. In some conditions, such as angina pectoris, the diagnosis may depend solely on the history, while in others, such as valvular diagnosis is made primarily from examination of the heart. On the other hand, recognition of cardiac failure depends on a general examination of the patient.
In clinical diagnosis it is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the history, which frequently requires much patience and skill to elicit accurately. Time taken over this part of the examination is never wasted. Patients with heart disease usually complain either of breathlessness, pain in the chest or swelling of the ankles. Other symptoms such as dizziness, faintness or palpitation are more commonly associated with anxiety or neurotic ill-health. A part from the analysis of specific complainsts each patient should be followed. It is important to distinguish symptoms due to organic disease from those which are due to associated anxiety. Get healthy body guys.
