Surgical management of Prinzmetal's variant angina.

CUnical data, coronary &nographic findings and results of surgery are analyzed in six patients with Pfhzmetars variant angina who underwent saphenous vein aorta to coronary bypass. Eighteen additional cases from the literature are also surveyed. Postoperatively, only 38 percent (9 of 24) of the entire surgically m e d group were free of pain with no evidence of myocardial infarction. There was lack of symptomatic improvement in 29 per-