Clinical Indicators of Left Main Coronary Artery Disease in Unstable Angina
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 91 (2), 149-153
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-91-2-149
Abstract
Catheterized patients (200) with unstable angina pectoris were reviewed to find clinical and noninvasive indicators of left main coronary artery disease (.gtoreq. 50% lesion). Patients (35, 17.5%) had left main coronary artery disease. There were no differences between patients with and without left main coronary artery disease in age, sex, results of resting ECG congestive heart failure, dyspnea during pain, duration of longest pain, arrhythmias, response to medical therapy or other risk factors. Crescendo angina pectoris (worsening of pre-existing angina), transient ST-segment depression with pain, simultaneous anterior and inferior ST changes during pain, and fluoroscopic calcification of the left main coronary artery were all significantly more common in patients with left main coronary artery disease. Low sensitivity and or low predictive value, limit the usefulness of these clinical predictors. Left main coronary artery disease cannot be reliably predicted in patients with unstable angina pectoris before coronary arteriography.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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