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Experimental approach to painful and painless ischemia

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Silent Ischemia

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In asymptomatic myocardial ischemia, from the point of view of pain research, we face the situation that the nociceptive stimulus is present and can be objectively demonstrated, but the nociceptive answer (angina pectoris pain) is missing. Consequently there must be reasons on the various levels of pain development, conduction or processing which explain why many people with myocardial ischemia have no or next to no pain (asymptomatic patients); why in many patients myocardial ischemia is sometimes accompanied by pain and sometimes not (asymptomatic episodes).

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    Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dipl.-Psych. C. Droste

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Droste, C., Roskamm, H. (1987). Experimental approach to painful and painless ischemia. In: v. Arnim, T., Maseri, A. (eds) Silent Ischemia. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12997-5_5

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