Most patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and chronic stable angina will obtain complete relief of symptoms with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, some chronic angina patients ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If angina pectoris – pain, pressure or tightness and shortness of breath – suddenly occurs even at rest, this can indicate an ...

BECAUSE angina pectoris is a consequence of inadequate myocardial oxygenation, ideal therapy for this incapacitating symptom would be directed toward both increasing coronary blood flow and decreasing ...

Angina pectoris is a debilitating indication of thepresence of ischemic heart disease that affects millionsof Americans. Although a number of pharmacologictreatments are available, the annual numberof ...

Individuals with undetected stable angina pectoris (SAP) as a consequence of undiagnosed coronary artery disease are at high risk of poor quality of life and a premature fatal event (for example, ...

This was an investigator-initiated, prospective, open-label, randomized, controlled study conducted at Hiroshima University Hospital between April 2011 and March 2013. We studied 30 patients with ...

Background: There is speculation that women and South Asian people are more likely than men and white people to report atypical angina and that they are less likely to undergo invasive management of ...

The goals of treatment are to decrease the frequency of angina, increase longevity, and improve patients' QOL. Management of risk factors is an essential component of this therapy. Also important is ...

Although coronary arteriograms of a 48-year-old woman with exertional chest pain typical of angina pectoris and an abnormal exercise electrocardiogram were normal, myocardial hypoxia and anaerobic ...

Before the advent of nitroglycerin 130-odd years ago, the only explosive in use was black gunpowder. The Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel developed nitroglycerin, and its spin-off, dynamite, at a ...