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Chronic Stable Angina
N Engl J Med 2005;352:2524-33. Copyright © 2005 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 47-year-old man reports a six-month history of intermittent chest discomfort while playing squash. He describes lower substernal tightness with numbness of the left upper arm only during exertion. He does not smoke. His father died suddenly at the age of 49 years. His blood pressure is 138/84 mm Hg. The level of to...
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O ur understanding of chronic stable angina is gradually expanding, and two theories have developed in recent years. First, in patients with chronic stable angina, residual coronary flow reserve can be modulated to an important extent by dynamic changes in the caliber of pliable coronary artery stenoses with preserved muscular media.' This theory, coupled with the evidence of the remarkable eff...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Internal Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2168-6106
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2407