title: [Prognostic significance of the electrocardiographic coronary reserve in stable angina].
abstract: We've studied the prognostic significance of the electrocardiographic coronary reserve, evaluated by seried effort tests, in patients with stable angina and proved coronary disease. Seventy-three patients with stable angina, who performed 2 exercise tests (basal and after vasodilator therapy) were included. It's considered variable reserve when in the second test the ST-descent improves greater than or equal to 1 mm for equal or higher double product (43 patients) and fixed reserve when it doesn't (30 patients). All of them underwent to coronariography study. The exercise test was seried each term during the first year. Clinical follow-up lasted 3 years and we considered cardiac events: myocardial infarction, unstable angina, surgery, PTCA or death. Patients with fixed reserve had higher maximal ST-descent (2.5 +/- 0.7 vs 1.9 +/- 0.6; p less than 0.05), lesser effort-time (359 +/- 144 vs 430 +/- 112; p less than 0.05), and more severe coronary disease (score: 3.5 +/- 1.5 vs 2.4 +/- 0.8; p less than 0.01) as compared with variable reserve group. Unfavorable clinic evolution was similar in both groups (44.3% in the fixed reserve group and 34.8% in the variable reserve group). We verified that 92.3% of patients with variable reserve who didn't modify its character in a year had good evolution; 76.4% of patients who changed to fixed reserve had unfavorable evolution (significant association, p less than 0.01). We conclude that in patients with variable reserve, the periodic evaluation of the reserve character has important prognostic implication.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Sección de Cardiología, Hospital de Galdakao.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salcedo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Molinero
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Echevarría
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Aguirre
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arzubiaga
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Iriarte
mesh_terms: D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: Significado pronóstico de la reserva coronaria electrocardiográfica en el angor estable.