BACKGROUND Angina in patients with coronary artery disease is associated with worse quality of life; however, the relationship between angina frequency and resource utilization is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS Using data from the MERLIN-TIMI 36 trial, we assessed the association between the extent of angina after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and subsequent cardiovascular resource utilizati...

Our case report is presumably the second reported of Ludwig’s Angina caused by Gemella morbillorum and first that survived. We reviewed literature on which often a misunderstood microorganism but has potential to cause serious infections lethal complications in certain cases; its historical identification, characteristic features, advanced studies virulence, pathogenicity other key information ...

BACKGROUND Early awareness, recognition, and treatment of angina can help prevent or delay an acute myocardial infarction and potentially delay death. A patient's educational level may affect a physician's diagnosis of angina and/or a patient's symptom recognition. The objective of this study was to determine whether low education is a risk factor for undiagnosed angina. METHODS This was a cr...

background: the complicated concept of quality of life (qol) has been considered as an important criterion for health outcomes in chronic diseases, such as heart disease, in recent years. the aim of this study was to evaluate the qol of patients with angina pectoris after treatment with enhanced external counterpulsation (eecp). methods and materials: this quasi-experimental study was conducted...

INTRODUCTION Unstable angina is associated with an acute systemic inflammatory reaction and circulating T lymphocytes are activated. We investigated whether in unstable angina with marked immune system activation a selective upregulation of the circulating T-cell renin-angiotensin system, modulated by angiotensin II, could occur. METHODS We studied 13 unstable angina patients, 10 patients wit...

One hundred and five patients with unstable angina and 175 with chronic stable angina were treated by primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Patients with unstable angina had had symptoms for a shorter time and were more likely to have angiographically complex lesions and lesions less than 10 mm in length than patients with chronic stable angina. Other baseline variables were n...

To define more completely regional coronary hemodynamic changes that occur during spontaneous angina pectoris in patients with variant angina, we measured coronary sinus and great cardiac vein blood flow (CSF and GCVF) and aortic and left ventricular pressures before and during spontaneous angina in six patients with variant angina. During spontaneous angina, ECGs in four patients showed eviden...