(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.
Painful
Definition:
(a.) Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
(a.) Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.
(a.) Painstaking; careful; industrious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
(2) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(3) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(4) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(5) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(6) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(7) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(8) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
(9) During the chronic phase, pain was assessed using visual analogue scales at 8 AM and 4 PM daily.
(10) Symptoms, particularly colicky abdominal pain, improved during the period of chelation therapy.
(11) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(12) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(13) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
(14) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
(15) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(16) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(17) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(18) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
(19) Our previous study demonstrated that acupuncture increased pain threshold of the body, especially in the inflammatory area.
(20) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.