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Nicorandil and Long-acting Nitrates: Vasodilator Therapies for the Management of Chronic Stable Angina Pectoris
Author(s): Jason M Tarkin , Juan Carlos Kaski Added: 3 years ago
Stable angina pectoris is the most prevalent clinical manifestation of coronary heart disease. While the overall prognosis in patients with stable angina is good, with a low yearly event rate of ~1–2 %,1 for many, adequate symptom control can be difficult to achieve, leading to significantly impaired quality of life. The traditional approach to the pharmacological management of stable angina, as… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Marie Mide Michelsen , Naja Dam Mygind , Daria Frestad , et al Added: 3 years ago
Women have for many years been regarded as being at relatively low risk for the development of ischaemic heart disease (IHD).1,2 Recently this pattern has changed and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is now the leading cause of death for women in Europe.3,4 Under the age of 60 years acute coronary syndrome occurs 3–4 times more often in men; however, after the age of 75 years women represent the… View more

Demographic

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Udho Thadani Added: 3 years ago
Non-obstructive lesions are lipid-rich and soft in consistency and the endothelium overlying these lesions is prone to fissuring and disruption. The exact mechanism of plaque-endothelial surface disruption remains elusive. Several mechanisms, including an active inflammatory process, have been implicated. The fissured endothelium exposes the atheromatous material inside the vessel wall to the… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
EuroPCR 2018: SCAAR - Prof Elmir Omerovic
Author(s): Elmir Omerovic Added: 5 years ago
Prof Elmir Omerovic (University of Gothenburg, SE) discusses SCAAR - Long-term survival in patients with stable angina pectoris undergoing PCI with or without intracoronary pressure wire guidance in a report from Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry (SCAAR) Filmed on-site at EuroPCR 2018 View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Philip A Poole-Wilson Added: 3 years ago
Angina pectoris is a symptom that is usually, in the developed world, caused by obstruction to the coronary arteries by the enlargement of atheromatous lesions; there are other causes. The symptom can limit lifestyle, but more importantly is a repetitive reminder to the patient of the presence of heart disease, causing continual anxiety because of the belief that angina is the portent of early… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions

MI/ACS
Author(s): Philip A Poole-Wilson Added: 3 years ago
Angina pectoris is a symptom that is usually, in the developed world, caused by obstruction to the coronary arteries by the enlargement of atheromatous lesions; there are other causes. The symptom can limit lifestyle, but more importantly is a repetitive reminder to the patient of the presence of heart disease, causing continual anxiety because of the belief that angina is the portent of early… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Edwin E Ferguson Added: 3 years ago
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) refers to coordinated multifaceted interventions designed to optimize a cardiac patient's physical, social, and psychological functioning, with the additional goals of stabilizing, slowing, or even reversing the progression of the underlying atherosclerotic processes, thereby reducing morbidity and mortality. CR is a comprehensive secondary prevention program that… View more

Heart Failure

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Edwin E Ferguson Added: 3 years ago
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) refers to coordinated multifaceted interventions designed to optimize a cardiac patient's physical, social, and psychological functioning, with the additional goals of stabilizing, slowing, or even reversing the progression of the underlying atherosclerotic processes, thereby reducing morbidity and mortality.1CR is a comprehensive secondary prevention program that… View more

Heart Failure

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Stable Angina Medical Therapy
Author(s): Talla A Rousan , Udho Thadani Added: 3 years ago
Background Definition of Stable Angina Angina pectoris was first defined by William Heberden in 1768. He described it as a smothering sensation or tightness across the front of the chest which may radiate to the left arm or to both arms as well as the jaw or back. It is usually triggered by exercise or emotional stress and it may be aggravated by the ingestion of a heavy meal.1 The pain usually… View more

Standards & Guidelines

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Added: 3 years ago
Rome, Italy 30 August 2016:New generation drug eluting stents (new DES) did not outshine contemporary bare metal stents (BMS) as they were expected to, in a surprise finding of the largest randomized stent trial to date. The Norwegian Coronary Stent Trial (NorStent), presented at ESC Congress 2016, “demonstrates that the efficacy of new DES versus contemporary BMS is lower than expected,” noted… View more