... to in the content or advertisements. 2024 Acute coronary syndrome Chest pain Myocardial infarction Unstable angina Complications Admission ward About 10% of all acute chest pain patients in the emergency department (ED) are diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) [ 1 ]. ACS is associated...

...Anna Meta Dyrvig Kristensen; Manan Pareek; Kristian Hay Kragholm; Thomas Steen Gyldenstierne Sehested; Michael Hecht Olsen; Eva Bossano Prescott Background: Unstable angina (UA) is a component of acute coronary syndrome that is only occasionally included in primary composite endpoints in clinical...

.... T wave Left anterior descending artery Acute coronary syndrome Unstable angina A 67-year-old male with no previously known diseases complained of episodes of oppressive chest pain with irradiation to both arms for a few weeks, which appeared initially during effort but progressed...

...Qiang Su; Lang Li; Yang Liu; You Zhou; Jiangyou Wang; Yuhan Sun Objective: To investigate the effects of intensive atorvastatin therapy on programmed cell death 4 (PDCD4) expression by CD4+ T lymphocytes in patients with unstable angina who received percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methods...

...Sudipta Chattopadhyay; Joseph John We describe a 3-case series of patients with a rare combination of mild-to-moderate aortic regurgitation and coronary microfistulae but nonobstructed epicardial coronary arteries who presented with symptoms of unstable angina and had confirmed myonecrosis...

...Sven V. Eriksson; Leif Erhardt; Kaj Lindvall; Anders Melcher; Nina Rehnqvist The aim of this study was to determine whether exercise echocardiography gives long-term prognostic information in patients with unstable angina. Treadmill exercise echocardiography was performed before discharge in 33...

...Douglas D. Yun; Joseph S. Alpert Acute coronary syndromes are defined as unstable angina, non-Q-wave myocardial infarction, and Q-wave myocardial infarction. These entities remain among the commonest life-threatening illnesses in industrialized nations. Prompt recognition of a patient with an acute...

...Shiqiang Qiu; Pierre Théroux; Michel Marcil; Charles Solymoss Plasma levels of endothelin-1 are elevated in acute myocardial infarction with higher levels in complicated infarctions. Measurements of levels in unstable angina could help clarify whether the elevation is the consequence of cell...

... and extracardiac causes of chest pain; group B, 15 patients with unstable angina; group C, 15 patients with non-Q-wave myocardial infarction (MI); group D, 16 patients with Q-wave MI. Treatment was given according to a normal routine. Of 31 patients with MI, 16 received treatment with streptokinase. Groups A and B...

...-acetoxy-4-trifluoromethyl benzoic acid), in the prevention of nonfatal myocardial infarction and cardiac or vascular death (principal end-points) in patients with unstable angina. 281 patients were randomly assigned to triflusal (300 mg t.i.d.; n = 143) or placebo (n = 138). After 6 months of treatment...

...J.V. Nixon; M.C. Hillert; Kirk M. Lipscomb; Thomas C. Smitherman This study was undertaken to determine whether abnormalities on the echocardiograms of patients with unstable angina have any prognostic significance. 27 male patients, mean age 53 years, who fulfilled criteria for unstable angina...

... defined for the diagnosis of AMI, variant angina and unstable angina. 42 patients were diagnosed as having had an AMI. 22 patients had transmural and 20 patients had nontransmural AMI. 40 of the 42 patients with AMI (95%) had positive scintiphotos; 2 (5%) had negative scintiphotos. 59 patients did...

..., coagulation factors and platelets. The aim of this study was to evaluate a possible relationship between HCY levels and the severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) and its prognostic value in patients with unstable angina (UA). Methods and Results: Ninety-four patients with UA were recruited and underwent...

... in unstable angina patients. Magnetocardiography (MCG) imaging can be used for the rapid, non-invasive detection of ischemia at rest. Methods: We studied 125 patients with presumed ischemic chest pain. All were chest pain free at the time of scanning. A 6-minute resting MCG scan (CardioMag Imaging, Inc., New...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Troponin Unstable angina Myocardial infarction Patients with symptoms suggestive of an acute coronary syndrome...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Angiography Syndrome X Microcirculation Unstable angina The coronary slow flow phenomenon is an angiographic...

...Bjarne Linde Nørgaard; Kristian Thygesen; Sabine Gill; Mikael Dellborg Continuous vectorcardiography ischemic monitoring (VCG) is a noninvasive technique which has contributed much to our understanding of the dynamics of acute coronary syndromes. For risk assessment of patients with unstable angina...

...Marc Cohen At present there is debate as to whether an invasive or a conservative strategy should form the basis of an optimal management strategy for unstable angina/non-Q wave myocardial infarction (UA/NQMI). However, these approaches are complementary, not necessarily mutually exclusive...

... coronary artery disease, i.e. unstable angina or non-Q-wave MI. Methods and Results: One hundred and fifty patients (mean age 69 ± 10), participating in a randomized study of low-molecular-weight heparin in unstable coronary artery disease, were studied with on-line VCG recordings for 24 h. During a 5–6...

...Avraham Shotan; Zohar Brill; Shlomi Matetzky; Amir Shachar; Zvi Feigenberger; Hanoch Hod; Elieser Kaplinsky It is difficult to assess acute therapeutic intervention therapy, particularly in patients with unstable angina. Our aim was to evaluate the feasibility of a pain-scoring method...