(n.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(2) The diagnosis of variant- or Prizmetal-angina is difficult because if insufficient specificity of the tests.
(3) This study describes the consequences of acute prostaglandin synthesis inhibition on the hemodynamic effects of nitroglycerin in patients with stable angina pectoris.
(4) It is concluded that 5 mg bisoprolol was effective in once-a-day treatment of angina pectoris due to coronary heart disease, and a further improvement can be expected on increasing the dose to 10 mg.
(5) Five thousand patients of atheromatous heart disease, presented as angina pectoris, were studied over a period of five years.
(6) Four hundred patients who were admitted over the last three years with myocardial infarction were questioned about the presence and pattern of angina before its onset.
(7) After the initial event 33 patients were asymptomatic and 62 with mild angina.
(8) Although operative mortality was significantly greater for women during most of this review period, mortality was similar during 1983 (2.6% for men versus 2.4% for women), in spite of a significantly higher incidence of unstable angina in the female group (54% for women versus 35% for men).
(9) The ratio of forced expiratory volume in the first second to forced vital capacity was not significantly different between individuals with or without a past history of heart attack, angina pectoris or ECG evidence of coronary heart disease.
(10) Similar, but less marked changes were seen in the patients unstable angina.
(11) Only heart rate correlated closely with the precipitation of angina.
(12) A new long-acting nitrate, Isomak R (forte), has been shown to be an effective antianginal drug; it increases physical stress tolerance, prevents attacks of angina of effort or angina at rest, significantly decreases pulmonary arterial occlusion pressure, peripheral arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance.
(13) One or more of the followin factors were present in the "high-risk" group: ventricular dysfunction--ejection fraction less than 0.4, preinfarction angina, evolving infarction, recent infarction (less than 2 weeks), and refractory ventricular tachyarrhythmia.
(14) In 42% of angina patients, the ratio is below 0.03.
(15) Within 4 months of Holter monitoring, the advised coronary angiography was performed in 77% of the patients with variable threshold angina and in 89% of the patients with fixed threshold angina (p less than 0.05).
(16) Thus one may speculate that endothelin plays a role in the coronary spasm which has been shown in patients with angina pectoris.
(17) The lack of free interval between the LBBsB and the angina-like chest pain (neurosensorial reflex) stands against an ischaemic mechanism.
(18) In this study, we report a one-year experience of the treatment and outcome of patients presenting early post-myocardial infarction angina.
(19) Thus, patients are likely to live longer after CABG if they have left main disease; three-vessel disease with left ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction less than 50%), class III or IV angina, provocable ischemia, or disease in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery; two-vessel disease with proximal left anterior descending artery involvement; and two-vessel disease with class III or IV angina as well as either severe left ventricular dysfunction alone or moderate left ventricular dysfunction together with at least one proximal lesion.
(20) These drugs are beneficial also in prevention of recurrent myocardial infarction, especially among patients with unstable angina.
Anginous
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Anginose
Example Sentences:
(1) (1) EXCP appears to be a more serious finding only in those higher risk individuals with either a positive EXECG or lower MAXRPP; (2) EXCP and its interactions may help discriminate between anginal and nonanginal, exertional chest pain, and (3) the contradictory results found when EXCP was allowed to interact may explain conflicting results in previous multivariate models regarding the predictive significance of EXCP.
(2) Increasing awareness of disorders such as coronary arterial spasm, functional impairment of subendocardial blood flow and the possible role of variant patterns of anatomic distribution of the coronary arterial tree, will provide a better understanding of their significance as determining or contributing factors in patients with the anginal syndrome.
(3) Usage of analyzing cardiac monitors with a signalling system switched on by the preset values of ST-segment depression prevented the evolution of myocardial ischemia and the development of exercise-induced anginal episodes.
(4) The addition of the lower dose of nifedipine to atenolol did not significantly alter the weekly consumption of glyceryl trinitrate or the mean number of anginal attacks as assessed by diary cards.
(5) Mean anginal frequency and sublingual nitroglycerin consumption were low during the cross-over placebo period and did not change significantly during therapy with nicardipine.
(6) The mechanism for its beneficial antianginal effect may be due to favorable redistribution of myocardial blood flow to ischemic zones; no clear effect on anginal threshold or sympathetic tone could be demonstrated in these patients.
(7) In all the patient groups, there was a reduction in the frequency of resting and exercise anginal attacks, in Group 3, exercise tolerance was increased due to drug therapy.
(8) Findings of an international multicentre trial in angina pectoris, indicate that timolol is effective in reducing the frequency of anginal attacks and the consumption of glyceryl trinitrate for their relief.
(9) Sixteen patients recorded anginal symptoms by the diary method over a 6 month trial of randomly sequenced 1 month periods of drug or placebo.
(10) The physical training led to a more pronounced decrease in the frequency of anginal attacks, an increase in tolerance to exercise by 51.7% and an improvement of a number of spiroergometric parameters.
(11) As compared with placebo, both nifedipine and diltiazem significantly reduced the daily number of anginal attacks and nitroglycerin consumption; prolonged exercise duration, time to 1-mm ST segment depression, and to onset of angina; and reduced the sum of ST segment depressions at maximal identical load in ergometry.
(12) All patients developed typical anginal pain during pacing tachycardia.
(13) We report a patient who presented with severe exercise limitation and anginal chest pain that appeared to result from pulmonary hypertension and predominantly right ventricular ischemia.
(14) The effectiveness of molsidomine has been evaluated by controlled drug versus placebo or drug versus reference anti-anginal drug studies in 3 types of angina pectoris: exertion, unstable and vasospastic.
(15) A control group consisted of 28 autopsied patients (Group II) who had died of causes other than heart disease and who had been free from anginal attacks.
(16) A series of 50 patients were randomly selected for detailed study of post-operative cardiologic complications and the following sequelae were noted: mortality = 1 myocardial infarct; morbidity = 1 myocardial infarct, 3 documented anginal pains, 8 repolarization disorders, 4 benign ventricular arrhythmias.
(17) Canadian Heart Association anginal classification of the study group was: class 0: 80 patients; class I: 11 patients; class II: three patients; class III and IV: no patient.
(18) Physical stress of 30-60-90 W was associated with less pronounced hemodynamic response, as compared to a control bicycle-ergometric test, in anginal patients.
(19) Anti-anginal efficacy was assessed by sequential treadmill testing 24 h post-dose, frequency of anginal attacks and consumption of nitroglycerin, patient and investigator assessment.
(20) He was diagnosed as having variant angina based on the typical ST elevation in leads II, III and aVF during the anginal attacks.