Ischemic heart disease includes a wide spectrum of conditions, ranging from silent ischemia and exertion-induced angina, through unstable angina, to acute MI. Unstable angina occupies the center of this spectrum, causing disability and risk greater than that of chronic stable angina but less than that of acute MI (Fig 1). Although non–Q-wave MI for many years was considered prognostically simil...

INTRODUCTION Coronary artery bypass graft is often the treatment of choice for patients who suffer from unstable angina. We do not know whether this condition adds morbidity in this scenario. OBJECTIVE To compare the outcomes of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft with unstable angina framework with patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft showed no unstable angina. ...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether neopterin concentrations in women with unstable angina differ from those in women with chronic stable angina. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING University hospital in south west London. PATIENTS 114 consecutive women with angina were studied: 82 had chronic stable angina (typical exertional chest pain, positive exercise ECG testing, and/or abnormal myoca...

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...