Prinzmetal's variant angina

02/01/1987 - "Twenty-four patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina showing a favorable initial response to calcium antagonist treatment were studied to assess the evolution of the disease and the frequency and time course of spontaneous remission. "
01/30/1987 - "Among patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina and unstable angina, episodes of silent ischemia appear to be as frequent as episodes of angina and the calcium antagonists are effective in decreasing episodes of ischemia regardless of the presence or absence of symptoms. "
01/30/1987 - "Calcium antagonists for Prinzmetal's variant angina, unstable angina and silent myocardial ischemia: therapeutic tool and probe for identification of pathophysiologic mechanisms."
04/01/1987 - "The short and long term efficacy of diltiazem, a calcium-entry blocker, has been evaluated in a group of ten patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina admitted to a CCU. "
10/01/1986 - "Ergonovine testing was carried out in a selected group of 25 patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina treated with calcium-antagonists in order to: define its usefulness in the evaluation of the short-term effectiveness of calcium-antagonist treatment; compare the results of the test with those of Holter monitoring; verify if the results of the test during the acute phase are correlated with the long-term response to treatment. "

03/01/1982 - "Ergonovine maleate was given to a patient suspected as a case of Prinzmetal's variant angina following demonstration of normal coronary arteries by angiography. "
10/22/1979 - "All had Prinzmetal's variant angina, normal or mildly abnormal coronary arteriograms, and a positive ergonovine maleate provocative test. "
04/01/1984 - "Ergonovine provocation to assess efficacy of long-term therapy in Prinzmetal's variant angina."
07/01/1992 - "Ergonovine maleate testing during cardiac catheterization: a 10-year perspective in 3,447 patients without significant coronary artery disease or Prinzmetal's variant angina."
11/01/1989 - "Hyperventilation and ergonovine tests in Prinzmetal's variant angina: comparative sensitivity and relation with the activity of the disease."

10/22/1979 - "Nifedipine in the treatment of Prinzmetal's (variant) angina."
02/01/1983 - "In conclusion, we observed first that nifedipine is highly efficacious in preventing the coronary vasospasm of Prinzmetal's variant angina. "
02/08/1993 - "Early routine administration of nifedipine in acute MI, other than to patients in whom it may be specifically indicated (eg, those with Prinzmetal's variant angina or severe hypertension) may be hazardous and seems to be contraindicated."
06/01/1981 - "To assess the effects of verapamil and nifedipine on left ventricular function at rest and during exercise in patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina pectoris, 10 patients (6 men and 4 women with a mean age of 52 years) with variant angina were each treated for 2 months periods with placebo, verapamil (400 +/- 80 mg/day, mean +/- standard deviation [SD]) and nifedipine (82 +/- 31 mg/day). "
06/01/1981 - "Effect of verapamil and nifedipine on left ventricular function at rest and during exercise in patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina pectoris."

07/01/1985 - "Absence of rebound from diltiazem therapy in Prinzmetal's variant angina."
01/01/1978 - "Diltiazem suppressed the attack completely and dramatically in all the cases of angina at rest (including Prinzmetal's variant angina). "
04/01/1987 - "The short and long term efficacy of diltiazem, a calcium-entry blocker, has been evaluated in a group of ten patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina admitted to a CCU. "
07/01/1985 - "To determine the frequency of rebound anginal symptoms on abrupt withdrawal of calcium channel blocking agents, anginal symptoms were retrospectively examined in patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina abruptly withdrawn from diltiazem therapy as part of the design of a placebo-controlled multiple crossover trial. "
03/01/1985 - "One hundred consecutive patients hospitalized in the coronary care unit for unstable angina, excluding patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina, were randomized within 24 hours of admission to treatment with diltiazem (50 patients) or propranolol (50 patients). "

04/09/1981 - "A controlled trial of verapamil for Prinzmetal's variant angina."
05/08/1981 - "Six patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina were treated with oral verapamil administration. "
04/01/1978 - "Prinzmetal's variant angina--response to verapamil."
06/01/1981 - "To assess the effects of verapamil and nifedipine on left ventricular function at rest and during exercise in patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina pectoris, 10 patients (6 men and 4 women with a mean age of 52 years) with variant angina were each treated for 2 months periods with placebo, verapamil (400 +/- 80 mg/day, mean +/- standard deviation [SD]) and nifedipine (82 +/- 31 mg/day). "
06/01/1981 - "Effect of verapamil and nifedipine on left ventricular function at rest and during exercise in patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina pectoris."

01/01/1989 - "Nitrates are beneficial in post-myocardial infarction patients with stable, unstable, and Prinzmetal's variant angina and as adjunctive therapy in congestive heart failure. "
04/01/1978 - "A patient with frequent attacks of Prinzmetal's variant angina complicated by ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation is described in whom these episodes persisted daily during 4 weeks of hospital observation in spite of treatment with nitrates, alpha-adrenergic-blocking drugs, and anticholinergic agents. "

03/01/1994 - "The efficacy of extended-release felodipine in preventing ergonovine-induced myocardial ischaemia was assessed in 14 patients (12 male, two female, aged 56 +/- 7 years) with Prinzmetal's variant angina. "
03/01/1994 - "Once daily felodipine in preventing ergonovine-induced myocardial ischaemia in Prinzmetal's variant angina."

06/01/1983 - "Prinzmetal's variant angina unresponsive to calcium channel-blocking drugs but responsive to combined calcium channel- and beta-blocking drugs."
07/01/1985 - "To determine the frequency of rebound anginal symptoms on abrupt withdrawal of calcium channel blocking agents, anginal symptoms were retrospectively examined in patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina abruptly withdrawn from diltiazem therapy as part of the design of a placebo-controlled multiple crossover trial. "

07/01/1980 - "Medical therapy for Prinzmetal's variant angina has been treatment of the acute attack with sublingual nitroglycerin. "
10/01/1981 - "[Nitroglycerin-application in order to differentiate a spastic from an organic coronary obstruction in a case of Prinzmetal's variant angina (author's transl)]."
10/01/1981 - "To avoid misinterpretation in asymptomatic coronary artery spasm an angiographic control after Nitroglycerin is necessary in patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina and coronary stenosis."
01/01/1981 - "Coronary spasm, frequently found at coronary arteriography in patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina, can be treated with intravenous or intracoronary injection of nitroglycerin as well as of nifedipine. "
01/01/1983 - "Although a wide variety of provocative agents and physiologic maneuvers may precipitate coronary artery spasm in susceptible patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina, ergonovine maleate testing has been demonstrated to be the safest when followed in a highly structured protocol which mandates not only electrocardiographic monitoring but immediate reversal of spasm by intravenous or intracoronary nitroglycerin. "

01/01/1978 - "Propranolol was not only ineffective in suppressing the attack but rather tended to aggravate it in all the cases of Prinzmetal's variant angina. "
11/01/1971 - "Clinical, electrocardiographic, and haemodynamic effects of long-term use of propranolol in Prinzmetal's variant angina pectoris."
03/01/1985 - "One hundred consecutive patients hospitalized in the coronary care unit for unstable angina, excluding patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina, were randomized within 24 hours of admission to treatment with diltiazem (50 patients) or propranolol (50 patients). "
05/01/1986 - "The effects of different pretreatments (lidocaine, propranolol and diltiazem) on arrhythmias related to vasospastic myocardial ischaemia induced by ergonovine maleate, were evaluated in four patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina. "
01/01/1978 - "To twenty six patients with angina at rest (including 13 patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina), propranolol 40--50 mg, dilitiazem 60--90 mg, dipyridamole 50 mg, atropine sulfate 0.6 mg and phenoxybenzamine 10--20 mg were given at 9:00 p.m. "

04/01/1982 - "Surgical therapy for Prinzmetal's variant angina."
01/01/1982 - "The presentation, diagnosis (including provocative testing), and therapy of Prinzmetal's variant angina are reviewed. "
07/01/1980 - "Medical therapy of Prinzmetal's variant angina."
04/01/1984 - "Ergonovine provocation to assess efficacy of long-term therapy in Prinzmetal's variant angina."
07/01/1985 - "Absence of rebound from diltiazem therapy in Prinzmetal's variant angina."

04/01/2010 - "Prinzmetal's variant angina is effectively treated with enhanced external counterpulsation."

01/01/1981 - "It is concluded that hyperventilation performed in the early morning, but not later in the day, may prove to be an effective and safe procedure for provoking Prinzmetal's variant angina, and that hyperventilation may be useful in the evaluation of the efficacy of drug therapy."

06/01/1979 - "Of these, nine occurred in patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina and 14 were instances of catheter-induced spasm. "
06/01/1979 - "Coronary spasm: Prinzmetal's variant angina vs. catheter-induced spasm; refractory spasm vs. fixed stenosis."

01/01/1981 - "Patients with Prinzmetal's variant angina who have spasm superimposed on atherosclerotic lesions can benefit from coronary arterial bypass grafting combined with partial denervation of the heart. "