(n.) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patients were all men with 57 years mean age, and a previous history of posteroinferior myocardial infarction, complicated in three of them with angor and severe ventricle arrythmias; chest X ray in lateral view showed a bump of the posteroinferior border of the cardiac silhouette; the echocardiography increase in the ventricular diameter below the mitral valve; the ventriculography made evident a diastolic bulging with systolic expansion of posterior and inferior segments of the left ventricle and no mitral regurgitation; selective coronary arteriography showed a dominant right pattern with 100 per cent proximal occlusion.
(2) The patients outliving myocardial infarction reached 69%; those surviving angor inestable, reached 79%, and the survivors of the no-coronary group, 92.5%.
(3) Three patients were asymptomatic, 2 with cardiac insufficiency and 1 suffering from angor.
(4) Observations confirmed the possibility that the onset of angor is due to reflex coronary vasoconstriction induced through the sympathetic system by stimuli arising in the gall bladder.
(5) A complex statistical analysis (stepwise regression analysis) of the variables presented by the patients (clinical, ECG and laboratory) showed that only 5 variables are important in the determination of the risk of RN namely: nontransmural localization of initial necrosis, atrial fibrillation, past history of angor pectoris, prolonged pain at onset and presence of idioventricular rhythm.
(6) Studying firstly these drugs, and afterwards its clinical use: cerebral ischemia, myocardium acute infarct, angor pectoris, revascularization coronary surgery, coronary percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, valvular prosthesis, valvulopathies, vascular prosthetic grafts, and others.
(7) The authors report the case of a 35 year-old man, suffering from Prinzmetal's angor and stress angor associated to a complicated esophago-gastric reflux.
(8) Basing on coronary arteriography results we divided patients; in the group A (10 patients with significant stenoses greater than or equal to 50%) stress ecg and scintigraphy were positive in 9 patients; Dipyridamole test induced angor and ecgraphic changes in 5 patients and in 4 left ventricle wall motion disorders, 201-Tl scan was positive in all 9 patients tested.
(9) 10 elderly patients suffering from chronic lithiasic cholecystitis presented sporadic attacks of angor during the digestion of rather abundant meals, associated or otherwise with biliary colic.
(10) During five years or until death, we had under observation 74 patients who survived the acute phase of myocardial infarction, 66 patients with angor inestable, and a third group, also of 66 patients of the coronary unit, but whose cases didn't show evidence of their illness being due to myocardial infarction.
(11) The other 9 patients followed-up at 1 to 8 months (mean 3.9) disclosed Canadian angor class I.
(12) The incidence of angor pectoris, acute myocardial infarction and heart failure was significantly greater in hypertensive patients of both types of diabetes than in the respective normotensive group.
(13) Three groups of electrocardiopathic manifestations have been individualised: ischemia proving angor (288 cases), anginose syndromes revealing a myocardic infarct (81 cases), acute myocardic infarcts (62 cases).
(14) The effect of nifedipine proved statistically significant (p less than 0.01) with respect to the parameters: double product, time of insurgence of angor and time of appearance of electrocardiographic anomalies.
(15) A statistical correlation with resting ECG nonspecific ST-segment and T-wave abnormalities was observed (p less than 0.05) despite the absence of angor in 8 of the 11 patients.
(16) Recorded complications are: 1. microangiopathy: nephropathy (25%) including 7 renal insufficiency and 2 patients under dialysis; retinopathy (29%); 2. macroangiopathy: cardiovascular accident 1 case; angor 4 cases; obliterative arteritis of inferior limbs 5 cases; 3. neuropathy 9 cases (17%); 4. high arterial tension 55%; 5. metabolic complications (20%): 4 acidocetosis; 2 hyperosmolar coma; 4 severe hypoglycemia; 6.
(17) Nine were male and 2 female, mean ages of 70, with Canadian angor class I (1), II (1), or IV (9) and EF ranging from 12 to 65% (mean 34%).
(18) Cardiac insufficiency, and a large area of infarction contribute to the non-return to work, while subsequent angor and arrhythmias do not demonstrate any significant relation.
(19) Through a capillary viscometer we measured venous and arterial blood viscosity (BV) in 25 patients with the diagnosis of ischemic heart disease (IHD); 10 of them with unstable angor pectoris (UA) and 15 with acute myocardial infarction (MI).
(20) Various aspects of the heart in hypertension, particularly ischaemic damage and its effects on angor, hypertrophy, decompensation, arrhythmias and sudden death are considered.
Anxiety
Definition:
(n.) Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.
(n.) Eager desire.
(n.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.
Example Sentences:
(1) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
(2) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(3) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
(4) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
(5) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
(6) Higher anxiety, depression and psychiatric morbidity scores were reported by all patients at 6 and, to a lesser extent, at 12 weeks with greater differences in women.
(7) Anxiety conditions were measured by monitoring palmar skin resistance with a psychogalvanometer.
(8) Ex-patients of a dental fear clinic were found to have significantly reduced, yet still high, dental anxiety scores in comparison with the pre-intervention scores.
(9) However, a decision-sharing approach had a significant effect on reducing anxiety levels in third-grade children.
(10) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
(11) Seventy-three percent of 90 psychiatric inpatients had a coexisting anxiety disorder.
(12) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
(13) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
(14) The following examinations could be proposed: in high risk cases determined before pregnancy, a chorionic villus sampling should be done between the 9th and 11th weeks of gestation; in low risk cases such as advanced maternal age, a first trimester chorionic villus sampling or a second trimester amniocentesis could be chosen; in the case of Down's syndrome, warning signs, for example ultrasonographic or biological parameters, a second trimester placental biopsy to relieve the parents' anxiety; in high risk cases such as ultrasonographic malformations, late placental biopsy or cordocentesis.
(15) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
(16) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
(17) Anxiety, depression, and somatization were greater in RAP mothers than well mothers.
(18) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
(19) The encouraging pilot results warrant a controlled study of exposure for dysmorphophobic avoidance and anxiety.
(20) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.