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Angina Pectoris With Pharyngeal Pain Alone: A Case Report

Department of Cardiology, Koto Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, kmws862170{at}yahoo.co.jp

Akiko Koizumi, MD

Department of Cardiology, Koto Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Eiji Tamiya, MD

Department of Cardiology, Koto Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Inoue, MD

Department of Cardiology, Koto Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Isao Ebihara, MD

Department of Medicine, Koto Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Hikaru Koide, MD

Department of Medicine, Koto Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Shinya Okazaki, MD

Department of Cardiology, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshiteru Kato, MD

Department of Cardiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Suzuki, MD

Department of Cardiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Daida, MD

Department of Cardiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine Tokyo, Japan

Patients with pharyngeal pain are frequently encountered in the department of otorhinolaryngology. The pharyngeal pain is usually caused by an inflammation or a malignant disease. In some cases, anginal pain radiates to the pharynx. However, patients with angina pectoris who suffer from pharyngeal pain without chest pain are believed to be very rare. The patient was a 70-year-old man whose chief complaint was only pharyngeal pain on exertion. The pharyngeal pain was similar to acute pharyngitis with burning pain. Upon cardiac catheterization, no abnormality was found in the right coronary artery or in the circumflex artery, but 99% stenosis was found in the middle portion of the left anterior descending artery. There was no collateral circulation to the left anterior descending artery. Thus, percutaneous coronary intervention was performed, and the pharyngeal pain vanished.

Key Words: angina pectoris • pharyngeal pain • PCI

This version was published on April 1, 2009

Angiology, Vol. 60, No. 2, 259-261 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0003319707311537


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