introduction:patients with the coronary slow flow phenomenon (scf) frequently experience angina episodes. the purpose of this study was to determine efficacy of nicorandil in myocardial perfusion in patients with scf. methods: twenty patients (50.85 ± 12.96 y) with scf were studied.  we evaluate coronary slow flow according to protracted thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (timi) frame count....

background: the purpose of this research was to determine the relation between negative or positive qualitative troponin i test and the short term prognosis of patients presenting to emergency department with chest pain or angina equivalent symptoms. methods: we assessed the qualitative rapid troponin i in patients with chest pain or angina equivalent symptoms after at least 4 hours and then we...

Ludwig's angina was first detailed by the German surgeon Wilhelm Friedrich von Ludwig in 1836. We present a case which needed awake fibreoptic intubation due to severe trismus and a prolonged period intubated in the Intensive Care Unit after incision and drainage of neck spaces and removal of his lower wisdom teeth. He was finally discharged a week after admission and followed up in the outpati...

assessment of the efficacy of propranolol and diltiazem on the intensity, duration and periods of pain in the angina patients referred to the heart clinic of the shahrekored university of medical sciences khaledi a1, elahei n2,moradi m3, salehi sh4* received: 7 sep , 2013 accepted: 16 nov , 2013 abstract background & aims: ischemic heart disease is one of the most common, chronic and deadly dis...

Background and Aims: Percutaneous coronary interventions have been provided in various hospitals of Nepal for more than two decades. Hence, we aimed to study the percutaneous intervention revascularization status patients with artery disease at a tertiary center eastern Nepal.
 Methods: A cross sectional was conducted Birat Medical College Teaching Hospital from 1st Aug 30th Feb 2023. Nine...

The effect of smoking five non-nicotine cigarettes and of breathing carbon monoxide on exercise-induced angina was evaluated in 12 patients with angina. Smoking increased venous carboxyhemoglobin from 1.71 to 5.35%, decreased exercise duration until angina 45%, increased ischemic STsegment depression at angina from 1.33 to 1.52 mm, and decreased systolic blood pressure times heart rate at angin...