Table 2.

Categorisation of reported early diagnostic guess for chest pain.

Categories of chest pain	Unspecific diagnosis	Specific diagnosis
		Not life threatening	Potentially life threatening
Musculoskeletal chest pain	Musculoskeletal chest pain, referred pain, trauma	Chest wall syndrome, Rib fracture, referred shoulder or spine pain	Costal metastasis
Cardiovascular origin	Cardiomyopathy, ischemic heart disease	Arrhythmia, acute hypertension, aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis	Stable or unstable angina, myocardial infarcts, acute angina, pulmonary embolism
Respiratory origin	Infectious disease, non-infectious disease	Bronchitis, asthma, COPD	Pneumonia, pleurisy, acute asthma
Digestive origin	Peptic affection, cancer	Oesophagitis, gastritis, gastric ulcer, oesophageal spasm	Oesophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, acute cholecystitis
Psychogenic chest pain	Anxiety, somatisation	Acute anxiety, panic attack, anxio-depression, somatoform disorder
Miscellaneous		Mastitis, mastalgia, sarcoidosis, herpes zoster, skin infection, chest wall keloid, acute pyelonephritis

COPD = Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease