Variant Angina Pectoris

Abstract

To the Editor: Whiting and his co-workers presented a fine clinical description of a patient with a, variant form of angina pectoris (N.E.J.M. 282:709–712, 1970). The history, electrocardiographic changes during pain and negative treadmill maximal exercise test leave no doubt about the correctness of their clinical diagnosis of Printzmetal's variant form of angina pectoris.¹ Our own studies of this syndrome² have now been extended to 12 subjects, five of whom were females with symptoms and electrocardiographic changes during pain strikingly similar to those noted by Whiting et al. (including two subjects who had transient second-degree atrioventricular block during pain). All . . .