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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine · 2019

A 59-year-old man, a business manager, developed intense burning retrosternal pain that irradiates to the left arm. The pain occurred in the evening after the tax audit. 15 minutes later the patient’s condition normalized. What mechanism of angina pectoris development is leading in this patient?

Answer options

  1. Coronary atherosclerosis
  2. Increased level of blood catecholamines
  3. Coronary artery thrombosis
  4. Intravascular aggregation of blood cells
  5. Functional cardiac overload
Correct answer

Increased level of blood catecholamines

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