"A SYMPTOM FOLLOWING ANGINA PECTORIS."

Angina pectoris.

Nonconventional therapeutic modalities in refractory angina pectoris

    Abstract   Despite sophisticated conventional medical treatment and the continued development   and improvement of coronary revascularization modalities in recent years, a significant   number of patients still suffer from refractory angina pectoris and cannot be successfully   managed. Advances in therapeutic options have led to an increase in the average of life   expectancy even in such ...

C-REACTIVE PROTEIN RESPONSE IN ANGINA PECTORIS

C-reactive protein (CRP) response was studied in 44 patients with acute angina pectoris admitted to the coronary care unit. 71 % of patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI)had positive CRP test while 73% of patients presumed to have unstable angina pectoris had negative CRP test. This test can be helpful in differentiating between acute MI and unstable angina pectoris.

The syndrome of relief of angina pectoris following myocardial infarction.

Although heart disease continues to increase in frequency among the causes of death in the population of the country, and although coronary heart disease constitutes the majority of cardiac disabilities, the prognostic outlook of coronary artery disease continues to improve steadily with time. This has recently been stressed in the medical literature and has even permeated into the lay press. I...

Angina pectoris and thyrotoxicosis.

The effects of thyrotoxicosis on the cardiovascular system are well recognized and some are very prominent. Symptoms ascribable to the overaction of the heart such as dyspncea, palpitation, tachycardia, irregularity of the heart, dizziness, and prxcordial pain have been encountered in as many as 80 per cent of a series of 148 cases of thyrotoxicosis (Burnett and Durbin, 1932). The pathological ...