(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.
Quinsy
Definition:
(n.) An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.
Example Sentences:
(1) His problem was first diagnosed as "quinsy" and later modified to "Cynanche trachealis".
(2) Prolonged follow-up shows that the rate of recurrence of a quinsy can double compared to the recurrence rate under 5 years.
(3) Few considered the age of the patient or a history of a quinsy a contraindication to its use.
(4) We recommend abscess tonsillectomy should be performed for quinsy where expertise and facilities are available.
(5) Only a quarter of the patients had a significant recent history of tonsillitis but four had had a previous quinsy and six had had a previous tonsillectomy in childhood.
(6) A prospective study was carried out to evaluate the sensitivity of ultrasonography in diagnosis of peritonsillar abscess (Quinsy).
(7) Abscess tonsillectomy reduces patients lost to follow-up, avoids the social inconvenience of a second admission, effectively relieves symptoms, treats a contralateral abscess and is the only method of treating children with a quinsy.
(8) We conclude that quinsy tonsillectomy is the best management for PTA in a young work force when the optimal treatment choice is between interval or acute tonsillectomy.
(9) Alkaline phosphatase activity was examined in the human tonsils in fetal life and after repeated attacks of acute tonsillitis and in quinsy.
(10) Quinsy cases following tonsillectomy are very rare indeed, as proved by the scarce publications related to the subject.
(11) Witnesses claim that he died when he choked on a fly while enjoying a goblet of wine, but historian believe he may have died from a complication of tonsillitis called quinsy.
(12) Quinsy tonsillectomy may be carried out for the best abscess exposure.
(13) Despite this it remains relatively low and an uncomplicated quinsy does not warrant tonsillectomy.
(14) In 37 patients with unilateral quinsy put was collected with a syringe technique and bacteriologically examined.
(15) Significant differences were noted between the quinsy and interval tonsillectomy groups concerning the average number of days hospitalized (3.0 versus 4.5) and their respective convalescent periods (10.3 versus 17.3).
(16) Although a common enough condition in the general population, quinsy is rare in children and even rarer in infants.
(17) A prospective study for the treatment of quinsy was undertaken between January 1989 and September 1991.
(18) Studies were included in comparison tables if they involved the trial of one or more antibiotics against a control and there was an outcome in terms of reduction in the incidence of acute rheumatic fever, acute glomerulonephritis, acute otitis media, acute sinusitis, quinsy or any symptoms related to the acute illness.
(19) The possibility of a subclinical contralateral peritonsillar abscess being present is an additional indication for proceeding with a quinsy tonsillectomy, especially in patients who remain febrile after apparent satisfactory drainage of the clinically evident abscess.
(20) 21 patients with non-rheumatic myocarditis, 25 convalescents following quinsy, and 58 donors.