Repeat coronary angiography in patients with chest pain and previously normal coronary angiogram.
Patients with chest pain and normal coronary angiograms have excellent long-term survival and are unlikely over the ensuing years to develop clinically significant atherosclerotic coronary artery disease. Specifically, of the 17 subjects with a previously normal coronary angiogram who had repeat angiography an average of almost 9 years later, 15 showed no appearance of coronary artery disease and 2 developed single-vessel coronary artery disease, 1 of whom had a myocardial infarction.
Pitts
W R
WR
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas 75235, USA.
Lange
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RA
Cigarroa
J E
JE
Hillis
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LD
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015996:Survival Rate