100 QUESTIONS IN CARDIOLOGY

RReeffeerreenncceess 1 Van Miltenburg AJ, Simoons ML, Veerhoek RJ et al. Incidence and follow-up of Braunwald subgroups in unsta ...

22 What medical treatments of unstable angina are of proven benefit? Diana Holdright The treatment of unstable angina is dictate ...

Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (e.g. abciximab, tirofiban and eptifibatide) are potent anti-platelet agents and are effective, ...

23 Under what circumstances should the patient with unstable angina undergo PTCA or CABG? Diana Holdright Until recently, publis ...

countries during a 6 month follow up. Countries with high intervention rates had higher stroke rates but lower rates of recurren ...

Investigators. Outcomes in patients with acute non-Q-wave myocardial infarction randomly assigned to an invasive as compared wit ...

24 What new approaches are there to prevent restenosis following PTCA? Richard Mansfield Percutaneous transluminal coronary angi ...

c-myc or c-myb oligonucleotides). There is a vast amount of experimental data, with early results from gene therapy trials for a ...

Landzberg BR, Frishman WH, Lerrick K. Pathophysiology and pharma- cological approaches for prevention of coronary artery resteno ...

25 Which thrombolytics are currently available for treating acute myocardial infarction? Who should receive which one? What newe ...

had severe pain over a few hours and has an appropriately abnormal ECG, thrombolytic treatment should be seriously considered. P ...

What to give Currently, the choice of thrombolytic varies by country and depends especially on the type of health care system an ...

5 GISSI-2. A factorial randomised trial of alteplase versus streptokinase and heparin versus no heparin among 12,490 patients wi ...

26 Is angioplasty better than thrombolysis in myocardial infarction? Which patients should receive primary or “hot” angioplasty ...

2 The Global Use of Strategies to Open Occluded Coronary Arteries in Acute Coronary Syndromes (GUSTO IIb) Angioplasty substudy I ...

27 What are the contraindications to thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction? Is diabetic retinopathy a contraindic ...

Although no systematic evaluation has been performed, the GUSTO-I trial observed no intraocular haemorrhages in 6011 patients wi ...

28 Exercise testing after myocardial infarction: how soon, what protocol, how should results be acted upon? Adam D Timmis Risk s ...

should be noted that the diagnostic value of exertional ST depression and reversible thallium perfusion defects is equivalent, m ...

29 What are the risks of recurrent ischaemic events after myocardial infarction: prehospital, at 30 days and at 1 year? Adam D T ...