Natural history of chronic coronary artery disease -- Exercise electrocardiographic stress testing -- Stress radionuclide imaging for detecting and assessing prognosis of coronary artery disease -- Echocardiography in chronic ischemic heart disease -- Coronary angiography -- Clinical eletrocardiography for quantification of myocardial infarction -- Case examples of electrocardiography for diagnosis of chronic ischemic heart disease -- Medical therapy of stable angina pectoris -- Silent myocardial ischemia -- Coronary angioplasty for stable angina pectoris -- Coronary artery bypass grafting for chronic ischemic heart disease.