Patients presenting with symptoms of chronic stable angina represent a relatively significant portion of general population, especially among older aged. Among people 45-54 years old, stable angina is reported between 2-5% in men and 0.5-1% in women, while among people 65-74 years old the corresponding incidence is reported 11-20% for men and 10-14% for women respectively. In >50% of these pati...

OBJECTIVE To discriminate between chronic inflammation and acute activation of the plaque immune response in culprit lesions of patients with acute coronary syndromes. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Tertiary referral centre. SUBJECTS 71 patients having coronary atherectomy were classified according to their ischaemic syndrome: stable angina (n = 23); stabilised unstable angina (n = 1...

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 Depression is strongly linked to increased morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic stable angina; however, its associated healthcare costs have been less well studied. Our objective was to identify the characteristics of chronic stable patients found to have depression and to determine the impact of an occurrence of depression on healthcare costs within 1 year of a diagnosis...

BACKGROUND Endothelin is an extremely potent vasoconstrictor that may have a role in the pathogenesis of acute myocardial ischaemia. Atrial natriuretic factor is an endogenous antagonist of endothelin. To find the pattern and possible importance of circulating endothelin in ischaemic heart disease, concentrations in normal controls and those in patients with stable and unstable angina, acute my...

BACKGROUND Chronic stable angina is a leading cause of death worldwide. Danhong injection, a complementary alternative medicine for chronic stable angina, has been demonstrated to be effective in numerous studies and is widely prescribed to patients. However, the methodological quality of most prior studies was found to be, in general, low. Therefore, we designed this randomized controlled tria...

The clinical presentation of ischaemic heart disease includes stable and unstable angina pectoris, silent ischaemia, myocardial infarction, heart failure and sudden death [1]. For many years, unstable angina has been considered an intermediate syndrome between chronic stable angina and acute myocardial infarction. In recent years, its pathophysiology has been clarified and acute coronary syndro...

The effects of indoramin, a selective alpha 1 adrenoceptor antagonist, on exercise tolerance were studied in 15 patients using a random double blind crossover protocol. All patients had chronic stable angina, for which 13 had been receiving beta adrenoceptor blocking drugs and nitrates, and these were continued unchanged throughout the study. An initial open challenge with indoramin in eight pa...