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Chapter and Conference Paper
Computer-Generated Index of the Severity of Coronary Disease
The coronary artery tree is classically divided into three vessel systems and patients are categorised according to lesions involving 50% or more reduction of lumen diameter in the branches of these systems — ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Prognosis of Coronary Heart Disease Patients Evaluated by Data Obtained by Angiography and Exercise Testing
The prognosis in coronary artery disease has been shown, not surprisingly, to be dependent on the severity of the disease as judged by coronary and left ventricular angiography (Oberman et al. 1972; Bruschke e...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Myocardial Infarction and Normal Coronary Arteries: Possible Role of Spasm
Data from 7013 patients with suspected ischemic heart disease has been analyzed in an attempt to determine the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) without demonstrable narrowing in the coronary arteries, a...
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Chapter
Precoronary Care
We heard yesterday about the birth of coronary care units and about the enermous information that we gathered by continuous monitoring of patients and how this led to the understanding that life-threatening ar...
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Chapter
Pre and postoperative investigation
One of the problems with coronary artery disease is that it presents almost no physical signs and the symptomatology is intermittent. It is therefore very difficult to define the exact status of the patient. H...
