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The purpose of this study was to delineate the clinical, ECG, and angiographic features of a large series of consecutive patients with angina at rest. Transient ST segment elevation during pain was observed in 219 patients (group I), while 220 patients showed ST segment depression during pain (group II). Group II patients were found to have higher incidence of hypertension (p less than 0.001), prior myocardial infarction (p less than 0.0005), history of exertional angina (p less than 0.0005), and a progressive aggravation of symptoms before hospitalization (p less than 0.0005), while group I patients had a prevalence of recent onset angina (p less than 0.05) and more frequently developed severe ventricular arrhythmias during pain (p less than 0.0005). Furthermore, a larger number of patients showing ST segment depression during chest pain had multivessel disease (p less than 0.0005), left main involvement (p less than 0.005), and lower values of left ventricular ejection fraction (p less than 0.001) than patients with ST segment elevation during pain. Survival curves of medically treated patients showed a significantly better long-term prognosis in patients of group I (p less than 0.01). The direction of the ST segment shift during anginal attacks at rest may therefore allow a classification of patients included into the broad spectrum of unstable angina. This distinction should be taken into consideration in studies aimed at evaluating long-term prognosis or the results of medical and surgical therapy.
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PMID:Clinical and angiographic findings in angina at rest. 394 60

To compare a propranolol-verapamil with a propranolol-nifedipine combination in patients with severe angina of effort, 16 patients (11 men and 5 women, aged 56 +/- 8 years [mean +/- standard deviation]) with more than 5 episodes/week of angina and a positive exercise tolerance test despite propranolol (229 +/- 44 mg/day [range 180 to 360]) were maintained on this dose of propranolol and, in addition, received verapamil (360 mg/day) and nifedipine (60 mg/day) for 3 weeks each in a double-blind, randomized fashion. In comparison with propranolol alone, anginal frequency and nitroglycerin usage were reduced by propranolol-verapamil but not by propranolol-nifedipine. Exercise time (standard Bruce protocol) was similar for the 2 combinations (6.4 +/- 2.0 minutes with propranolol-verapamil, 6.6 +/- 2.1 minutes with propranolol-nifedipine, difference not significant), but the magnitude of ST-segment depression at peak exercise was less (p less than 0.05) during propranolol-verapamil (0.03 +/- 0.06 mV) than during propranolol alone (0.18 +/- 0.07 mV) and propranolol-nifedipine (0.08 +/- 0.07 mV). Left ventricular ejection fraction at rest was higher (p less than 0.05) with propranolol-nifedipine (0.62 +/- 0.10) than with propranolol-verapamil (0.58 +/- 0.10), but neither differed from ejection fraction at rest with propranolol alone (0.59 +/- 0.08). Ejection fraction at peak exercise was similar during all 3 periods. In 2 patients, verapamil caused weakness, lightheadedness, and severe sinus bradycardia (40 to 48 beats/min), and the dosage was reduced (blindly) to 240 mg/day, with the alleviation of bradycardia and associated symptoms.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Propranolol-verapamil versus propranolol-nifedipine in severe angina pectoris of effort: a randomized, double-blind, crossover study. 396 62

Adaptation to exercise or the "warm up phenomenon" has been observed in some patients with angina pectoris. To investigate adaptation, eleven patients with exertional angina pectoris and angiographic evidence of coronary artery disease underwent two identical bouts of sequential tachycardia stress separated by a brief recovery period. Manifestations of ischemia were less during the second stress, as evidenced by a reduction in the severity of angina pectoris, less ST segment depression, and improved lactate extraction. Peak coronary blood flow during the second stress (81 +/- 20 ml/min) was not significantly different from that during the first (95 +/- 32 ml/min). Regional myocardial oxygen consumption, however, was significantly (p = .03) lower during the second stress (8.8 +/- 2.4 ml O2/min) when compared with the first (11.4 +/- 3.0 ml O2/min). Thus, patients with coronary artery disease can develop anginal tolerance to the stress of tachycardia similar to that observed after repeated bouts of exercise. A relative reduction in myocardial oxygen consumption, rather than an increase in coronary blood flow, appears to account for this phenomenon.
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PMID:Adaptation to the stress of tachycardia in patients with coronary artery disease: insight into the mechanism of the warm-up phenomenon. 397 38

Coronary constriction at the site of atherosclerotic stenoses has been suggested to play an important role in modulating the frequency of symptoms in patients with exertional angina. To investigate whether stimuli triggering coronary constriction have similar effects in patients with exertional and variant angina, responses to hyperventilation (HV) and cold pressor test (CPT) were evaluated. Twenty patients with chronic exertional angina, positive exercise test results and coronary heart disease were compared with 14 patients with variant angina and ST-segment elevation during an ergonovine test. In patients with exertional angina, the CPT produced diagnostic ST-segment depression in 6 of 20 patients (30%) at levels of rate-pressure product much lower than those during the exercise test; all patients had low effort tolerance and severe coronary artery disease. HV produced diagnostic ST-segment depression in only 1 of 20 patients (5%) (p less than 0.05 compared to that with CPT). Conversely, in patients with variant angina, HV produced ST-segment elevation in 11 of 14 patients (78%) and CPT produced elevation in only 2 of 14 (14%) (p less than 0.01). Thus, coronary constriction can provoke myocardial ischemia not only in patients with variant angina but also in some patients with exertional angina. Furthermore, the 2 groups of patients have a different susceptibility to stimuli known to produce coronary constriction.
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PMID:Different susceptibility to myocardial ischemia provoked by hyperventilation and cold pressor test in exertional and variant angina pectoris. 401 24

PY-108-068 (PY) has calcium antagonist and coronary dilatory activity in animals, suggesting that it may be useful for the treatment of angina pectoris. We have studied its effects in 19 patients with stable exertional angina. After a 2-week single-blind placebo run-in phase, patients were randomised double-blind to either 75 mg or 150 mg of the drug (in three divided doses) daily for 2 weeks, crossing over to the alternate dose for a further 2 weeks. Maximal treadmill tests with computer-assisted electrocardiographic analysis were used to evaluate efficacy. The mean +/- SEM exercise time to onset of angina increased from 6.1 +/- 0.5 min on placebo to 9.3 +/- 0.8 min on PY 75 mg (P less than 0.001) and to 9.2 +/- 0.8 min on PY 150 mg (P less than 0.001) vs placebo; NS vs 75 mg). The time to development of 1 mm ST-segment depression in lead CC5 also increased from 5.0 +/- 0.7 min on placebo to 6.4 +/- 0.9 min on PY 75 mg (P less than 0.01) and to 7.0 +/- 0.8 min on PY 150 mg (P less than 0.01 vs placebo; NS vs 75 mg). Unlike other calcium antagonists, treatment with PY-108-068 did not significantly alter the resting or maximal heart rates or the heart rate gain during exercise. Resting blood pressure was reduced at the higher dose level but peak blood pressure during exercise and peak double product were unaltered by PY-108-068 treatment.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Objective evaluation of PY-108-068, a new calcium channel inhibitor for the treatment of chronic stable angina pectoris. 405 38

Submaximal and maximal treadmill exercise tests were performed predischarge in 64 patients after acute myocardial infarction to assess the relative yield of residual ischaemic abnormalities. The reproducibility of individual abnormalities resulting from maximal stress tests performed predischarge and 6 weeks after infarction was also assessed in 55 of these patients. Compared with predischarge submaximal exercise testing, a maximal exercise test identified a significantly greater number of patients with residual myocardial ischaemia (26 vs. 15, P less than 0.05) and this was associated with a significantly longer average maximal exercise duration (P less than 0.001), and a higher rate-pressure product (P less than 0.001). Among the 55 patients who had maximal stress tests both predischarge and 6 weeks after infarction, there was a significant lack of reproducibility in the occurrence of exercise induced angina (P less than 0.01) and an abnormal blood pressure response (P less than 0.02). In contrast, exercise induced ST segment depression and elevation and ventricular arrhythmias were relatively reproducible. More patients had an ischaemic test result (ST depression or angina) at the later test compared to the predischarge test (33 vs. 25 patients) but this increase was not statistically significant. There were, however, significant increases at the later test in mean maximal exercise duration (P less than 0.001). mean maximal heart rate (P less than 0.001) and heart rate-systolic blood pressure double product (P less than 0.001). The majority of patients who had a cardiac event in the period between the two tests had a predischarge test abnormality. We conclude that a significantly greater number of patients with residual reversible myocardial ischaemia after infarction will be identified by symptom limited exercise testing compared with a submaximal predischarge test. Because ST depression and elevation appear reproducible, patients who develop these abnormalities during a predischarge test do not, for prognostic reasons, need retesting 6 weeks after infarction. Exercise induced angina pectoris and an abnormal blood pressure response, however, are highly variable and in these patients a repeat test may be useful.
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PMID:Stress testing predischarge and six weeks after myocardial infarction to compare submaximal and maximal exercise predischarge and to assess the reproducibility of induced abnormalities. 405 43

Bicycle ergometry was conducted in conjunction with the consecutive administration of the placebo, 80 mg anaprylin, 30 mg corinfar, and 80 mg anaprylin + 30 mg corinfar in patients with 2nd--4th class angina of effort. Both anaprylin and corinfar significantly raised patients' physical stress tolerance, increased the total amount of work done, and reduced the magnitude of St depression during exercise. Combined use of anaprylin and corinfar produced the greatest rise in physical stress tolerance in more favorable hemodynamic conditions. Bicycle ergometry in conjunction with anaprylin and corinfar can supply additional functional information on angina pectoris and its pathogenetic mechanisms.
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PMID:[Effect of a single dose of anaprilin and corinfar on the results of the bicycle ergometric test in patients with stenocardia]. 405 46

Diltiazem and propranolol alone and in combination as antianginal agents were compared with placebo in 12 patients with stable exertional angina at Stanford University Medical Center. The patients performed symptom-limited, multi-stage upright bicycle ergometric exercise while undergoing radionuclide angiographic studies every two weeks while being treated with 90 mg of diltiazem four times daily, 60 mg of propranolol four times daily, a combination of 90 mg of diltiazem and 60 mg of propranolol four times daily, and placebo. Diltiazem, propranolol and a combination all significantly increased exercise duration compared to placebo (526 +/- 149, 525 +/- 115, and 549 +/- 129 vs 430 +/- 132 sec.). Although rate pressure product and heart rate decreased with diltiazem therapy at submaximal workloads, these values were unchanged at peak exercise in contrast to propranolol or the combination of propranolol or diltiazem. Diltiazem decreased the sub-maximal and maximal degree of exercise-induced ST segment depression by over 50% compared to placebo (P less than 0.01 vs placebo). Diltiazem resulted in a higher exercise left ventricular ejection fraction compared to placebo, propranolol or the combination of diltiazem or propranolol (all less than P less than 0.05). Sinus bradycardia or orthostatic hypertension occurred in four patients on the high-dose combination therapy and required dose reduction. We concluded that high-dose diltiazem, appeared to be even more effective than moderate-dose propranolol or the combination of diltiazem and propranolol in improving exercise tolerance, electrocardiographic evidence of myocardial ischaemia and left ventricular function in patients with stable effort angina due to occlusive coronary artery disease.
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PMID:Diltiazem and propranolol, alone and in combination, on exercise performance and left ventricular function in patients with stable effort angina: a double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled study. 406 Nov 5

It is widely accepted that the occurrence of chest pain and/or ST segment elevation during ergonovine testing is a hallmark of abnormal coronary constriction. However, the negativity of this test cannot be considered as an incontrovertible proof of the absence of coronary sensitivity to vasoconstriction. Indeed, it could only indicate that the resulting effect is inadequate to critically reduce coronary blood flow. To test this hypothesis we studied 12 patients with proven coronary artery disease and negative ergonovine test who had complained of chronic exertional angina pectoris and referred variable threshold for the occurrence of pain. They were submitted to atrial pacing (starting from 90 bpm, with 10 bpm increments every 2 min) before (control) and after ergonovine administration (total dose = 0.675 mg). Time, heart rate and rate pressure product were evaluated at the onset of angina and significant ischemia (0.1 mV ST segment depression). After ergonovine, angina was achieved earlier (405 +/- 173 vs 526 +/- 180 sec, p less than 0.005) than during control and at a lower heart rate (116 +/- 15 vs 131 +/- 15 bpm, p less than 0.001) and rate pressure product (15.8 +/- 2.0 vs 18.8 +/- 2.3 X 10(3) U, p less than 0.001). Changes in anginal threshold were widely variable among cases being that the time to onset of pain was dramatically reduced in certain patients but unchanged in one. Similar results were obtained when substituting the ischemic to the anginal threshold. Thus, negativity to ergonovine testing does not imply the absence of coronary constriction which may be revealed when increasing myocardial oxygen demand by atrial pacing.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Changes in angina threshold induced by administration of ergonovine maleate during pacing in patients with chronic exertional angina]. 409 10

The effect of atenolol, a new cardioselective beta-adrenogenic blocking agent, was studied in 11 patients with angina of effort in a double-bind trial involving monitored exercise tolerance tests. The drug significantly reduced the heart rate, blood pressure and time-tension index. As a result, ST segment depression also diminished after treatment. Although working capacity, compared with controls, increased after atenolol, no difference was observed in this respect between the drug and placebo, suggesting the development of physiological tolerance to exercise. It is concluded that atenolol is useful in the prevention of angina pectoris, particularly in patients in whom there is associated arterial hypertension.
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PMID:Effect of atenolol in angina pectoris of effort. 449 21


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