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Chronic CHD & atherosclerosis


"A 58-year-old white woman who had undergone 3-vessel coronary artery bypass graft surgery in 1988 presented with a 5-month history of chest pressure at rest."


"A 55-year-old man presented with dyspnea on effort and atypical chest pain."


"A 20-year-old woman with a history of Kawasaki’s disease as a child and coronary aneurysms underwent cardiac MRI for reevaluation before an intended pregnancy."


"63-year-old asymptomatic woman with a loud continuous cardiac murmur..."


42-year-old transplant recipient shows regression of donor coronary atherosclerosis.


"A67-year-old woman with a history of arterial hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, and chronic atrial fibrillation presented with atypical chest pain..."


"A 33-year-old woman developed shock and died 16 hours after labor with moderate hemorrhage."


"A 56-year-old woman with pectus excavatum presented with a 2-year history of increasing chest pain only while she was lying on her right side."


"A 65-year-old woman presented with a systolic-diastolic murmur."


"75-year-old woman with chronic refractory angina pectoris and no previous myocardial infarction..."


"A 35-year-old man who had smoked two packs of cigarettes per day for 20 years presented with necrosis of the ends of the middle finger and the thumb of the left hand."


"A 57-year-old postmenopausal woman was admitted to the hospital because of worsening angina pectoris."


"28-year-old woman presented with chest pain caused by progressive myocardial ischemia."


"A 22-year-old man with pseudoxanthoma elasticum and normal visual acuity was found to have bilateral angioid streaks."


"A 48-year-old man was first referred to our clinic in January 1989 because of marked hypocholesterolemia..."


"Two and one half years after a lateral wall myocardial infarction, this 75-year-old patient was found to have marked cardiomegaly on chest radiograph."


A 25-year-old with severe coronary artery disease.


"A56-year-old obese woman with severe steroid- and oxygen-dependent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was thought to have experienced an apical myocardial infarction..."


"A74-year-old man was referred to our catheterization laboratory for elective angioplasty of the right coronary artery (RCA)."


"The patient was a 31-year-old man with a past history of polycythemia vera, "enlarged heart" (1992), transient ischemic attack (1995), and decompensated heart failure (1997)."


"...44-year-old asymptomatic man..."


"A 50-year-old white man presented with in-stent restenosis in April 1998."


"...the first patient in Brazil to undergo a percutaneous transmyocardial revascularization ..."


"A 36-year-old woman with newly discovered diabetes mellitus had eruptive xanthomata on her elbows and knees together with striking retinal changes."


"A 70-year-old man was referred for recent-onset angina."


"The coronary angiogram shown in the Figure was obtained from a 67-year-old man...after a continuous systolic and diastolic murmur was noted."


"22-year-old asymptomatic young man with a history of Kawasaki disease in early childhood was referred to our outpatient clinic because of ECG evidence of old anterior myocardial infarction."


"A26-year-old man was admitted to a private nursing home in December 1995 with the sudden onset of palpitations."


"...multislice CT angiography of a 77-year-old woman referred to our hospital for evaluation of atypical chest pain."


"A 39-year-old man with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia..."


"A 24-year-old woman was evaluated for exertional dyspnea and chest pain."


"3-year-old boy who had Kawasaki's disease at 18 months of age..."


"Chest discomfort and negative U waves in precordial leads V, V, and V of the electrocardiogram (black arrows) with T-wave inversion occurred after the infusion of dipyridamole..."


"63-year-old man suspected of having angina pectoris."


71-year-old woman with flash pulmonary edema.


"African 3-year-old boy had had a systolic and diastolic murmur of 3/6 maximal at the left midsternal border in the neonatal period..."


"Serial electrocardiograms (lead V4) were obtained in a 67-year-old man taking digoxin for paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia."


A coronary anomalie was found by routine echocardiogrphy of a 72-year-old woman.


"In a 36-year old long-distance runner with a history of palpitations and presyncope, an episode of sudden cardiac death occurred during competitive mountain racing."


"A 22-year-old woman with a family history of hypercholesterolemia had had a soft-tissue swelling on the back of her left ankle..."


73-year-old man presents with dyspnea on exertion and chest tightness.


"An 11-year-old boy presented with giant calcifications on the chest radiograph."


"A 26-year-old man, previously in good health, was transferred to the emergency unit of our hospital on July 19, 1995; however, he was dead on arrival."


"A baby boy was found to have familial hypercholesterolemia at the age of six months."


"A50-year-old man with angina pectoris was hospitalized for coronary angiography."


"A 52-year-old man complained of dyspnea on exertion for 1 month."


"62-year-old woman with a history of angina pectoris."


CT scanning of coronary arteries.


"A 64-year-old woman with no previous cardiac history suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest the day after her husband died."


"A48-year-old male saxophone player underwent successful PTCA to the left circumflex coronary artery..."


A 14-year-old girl who had a myocardial infarction at age 3 presents with calcification on her chest x-ray.


"A 69-year-old man presented to his local physician with progressive dyspnea on exertion and a chest radiograph showing pulmonary edema."


"An 84-year-old woman with exertional chest pain underwent a preoperative evaluation for a colectomy."


Angina after radiation therapy for in-stent restenosis.


"A 68-year-old man with no active cardiac symptoms was seen in our outpatient center for a second opinion after having undergone 4 percutaneous revascularization procedures in the previous 5..."


"A 61-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of angina occurring at rest and on exertion."


"A 72-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with delirium, acute renal failure, increasing hypertension, sudden impairment of vision in the left eye, and severe pain in the left foot."


"A 68-year-old man presented with epigastric burning associated with exercise."


"A 63-year-old man presented with a 2-week history of bilateral lower-extremity edema, a 30-lb weight gain, increasing shortness of breath, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea."


"A 57-year-old woman presented with typical angina."


"This 77-year-old woman underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery..."


"Lesions typical of atheroembolism are apparent on the feet (Panel A) of a 65-year-old man who had undergone left heart catheterization through the femoral approach four weeks earlier."


50-year-old man shows improved myocardial perfusion after medical management.


"Photographs of a four-year-old boy show the typical features of Kawasaki's disease."


"A 61-year-old man with a history of coronary artery aneurysms was referred to our institution for evaluation of dyspnea on exertion."


"70-year-old man with exertional angina presented for cardiac catheterization..."


"An 83-year-old woman presented with chest discomfort."


"The patient suffered from Kawasaki disease at 5 months of age."

Edited by Donald L Vine MD

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