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The authors examined 125 patients with initial forms of ischemic heart disease (duration of no more than 2 months). The examination comprised coronarography, ventriculography, 24-hour ECG monitoring, and bicycle ergometry. The patients were divided into two groups: group 1 consisted of 81 patients who received nonoperative treatment; group 2 was formed of 44 patients who underwent operation for aortocoronary shunting. The results of treatment were appraised according to three parameters: a state of angina pectoris, prevention of myocardial infarction, and survival. They were studied in the hospital stage and in the long-term follow-up periods. Comparative analysis showed that surgery had some advantages over nonoperative treatment in relieving completely attacks of angina pectoris and transitory episodes of myocardial hypoxia. Patients who had been operated on possessed higher tolerance to physical exertion. None of the two methods of treatment had advantages over the other in regards to prevention of myocardial infarction, a fatal outcome, and prolongation of survival.
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PMID:[Choice of treatment methods in initial forms of ischemic heart disease]. 278 67

In a comparative study on the pathomechanism of myocardial hypoxia we determined a parameter each of platelet activity and thrombin activity in 46 patients with angina pectoris, i.e., 15 patients with dilatative cardiomyopathy (DCM), 15 patients with latent cardiomyopathy (LCM) and 16 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) compared to 15 normal subjects (N). beta-thromboglobulin (beta TG) and fibrinopeptide A (FPA) were measured both at rest (I) and after symptom-limited maximal exercise (II) in plasma. In N, beta TG was not increased in any case, neither at rest nor on exertion (I: 20.5 +/- 6.1 ng/ml, II: 22.4 +/- 6.7 ng/ml). Patients with LCM did not differ significantly from N (I: 20.9 +/- 6.1 ng/ml, II: 22.7 +/- 7.9 ng/ml). beta TG values of some patients with DCM and CHD were increased at rest and especially under exercise (DCM I: 27.9 +/- 9.6 ng/ml, vs. N p less than 0.025; II: 49.9 +/- 45.5 ng/ml, vs. N p less than 0.01; CHD I: 25.2 +/- 7.7 ng/ml, vs. N p less than 0.05; II: 38.6 +/- 34.3 ng/ml, vs. N p less than 0.01). Patients with DCM developing significant angina under exercise showed a higher beta TG under these exercise conditions than those with mild or no angina (p less than 0.01). In patients with coronary heart disease, this correlation was not to be found. With regard to FPA the four investigated groups differed in an analogous way, as they did with regard to beta TG; but only a weak correlation within both values was shown.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Thrombocyte activity in dilatative cardiomyopathy and latent cardiomyopathy compared to coronary heart disease]. 623

In 20 patients with coronary heart disease and typical changes in the exercise ECG (evidence of myocardial hypoxia), which disappeared completely on second ergometry after isosorbid dinitrate, the effect of a single dose of 400 mg acebutolol (Prent) was tested on exercise. Ergometrically induced cardiac work was significantly reduced in all patients, compared with leg exercise (little change in lower, more marked change in the higher ranges of exercise) so that repeat ergometry at the same ergometric level of exercise produced neither signs of hypoxia nor angina. There were no significant changes after a placebo.
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PMID:[Acebutolol in coronary heart disease: an ergometric double-blind study (author's transl)]. 740 84

Patients suffering from stress-induced angina pectoris subjected to exertion show a decreased level of non-protein SH-groups in blood plasma and erythrocytes which depends on the level of myocardial hypoxia and may indicate metabolic exhaustion of the organism. Lowered concentrations of non-protein SH-groups are not a result of lipid peroxidation. Adrenalin is known to antagonize the depletion of non-protein SH-groups under exertion, while noradrenaline promotes the process of their oxidation. When the level of non-protein SH-groups decreases under exertion, the content of atherogenic lipids in blood does not increase, which implies that SH-groups are involved into the mechanism of appearance of atherogenic lipids in blood under exertion.
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PMID:[Non-protein sulfhydryl groups in the blood of patients with stenocardia induced by physical stress]. 775 64