Prinzmetal's angina pectoris with normal coronary arteriograms.
Four cases of variant angina pectoris with normal findings on coronary arteriogram were experienced. The facts may show that the existence of serious arteriosclerotic lesions in a major branch of coronary artery as pointed out by Prinzmetal is at least not essential for the occurrence of anginal attack in the present disease. But the finding that age and sex distribution of variant angina was nearly the same as that of effort angina seems to still indicate the possibility that arteriosclerotic lesion somehow participates in the mechanism of occurrence of the present disease.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000503:physiopathology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged