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E Badui

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[Asymptomatic ischemia in coronary arterial ectasia. Effects of anticoagulation].

We studied 23 patients (22 men and 1 woman), their ages ranged from 31 to 71 years (55.9 +/- 9.7 years), with isolated coronary arterial ectasia. Seventeen patients presented angina pectoris, 19 had myocardial infarction. An angiographic image of intracoronary thrombus was observed in 5 patients. Before the administration of anticoagulants (oral warfarin) 16 patients showed unstable angina, the exercise EKG was positive in 9 patients, and 16 patients presented silent ischemia (showed by EKG-Holter), whose duration was 35.21 +/- 29.27 min per day. After anticoagulants, only 5 patients showed unstable angina pectoris. Exercise EKG was positive in 7 patients and only 7 patients showed silent ischemia, whose duration decreased significantly (P < 0.001) to 12.47 +/- 22.5 min per day.

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[Effectiveness of anticoagulant oral treatment in patients with thrombus in left ventricle after acute myocardial infarction].

Left ventricular mural thrombi (LVMT) is a complication of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), that may produce peripheral embolism which could be fatal. In order to establish an adequate time of oral anticoagulant (OA) therapy, we undertook a prospective study that included 45 patients with AMI and left ventricular thrombi detected by echocardiographic study, in the first 5 to 10 days postinfarction, the study was repeated, in 3 and 6 months. Treatment with oral anticoagulant was initiated at the point of the detection of thrombi maintaining an INR of 1.5 to 2. Thirty nine patients (79%) were males and 6 (11%) were females, with an age of 29 to 85 years and a range of 62 +/- 11 years. Forty four patients (98%) presented anterior wall infarction and 1 (2%) posteroinferior infarction. In patients with anterior infarction, in 38 (85%) the thrombi was located at the apical wall (p < 0.05), 5 (11%) in the septal wall and other (2%) in anterior and apical walls. The patient with the posteroinferior infarction presented extension to the right ventricle, where the thrombus was located (2%). The contractility alterations related with thrombi were diskinesia, followed by hipokinesia and finally akinesia. The ejection fraction had not relationship with thrombi formation. LVMT dissolved in 32 patients (71%) at 3 months (p < 0.05), in 8 (18%) in 6 months and in 5 (11%) it was maintained for more than 6 months. None of the patients presented complications of OA. We conclude that the LVMT are more frequent in anterior infarctions, essentially in those that present diskinesia. The majority of LVMT are resolved in 6 months with OA therapy.

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[Acute myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries as initial manifestation of polyarteritis nodosa. A case report].

A thirty four-year-old-white man in good health developed an acute anterior wall myocardial infarction (AMI), Killip II with normal coronary arteries. No thrombolytic therapy was given. Selective angiography revealed multiple aneurysms in mesenteric and renal arteries. The diagnosis of polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) was performed. AMI in PAN is secondary to arteritis with thrombosis, or to atherosclerosis due to steroid therapy. This case, having multiorgan vascular aneurysms involvement without previous cardiac symptomatology nor steroid therapy, presented as his first cardiac complication an AMI with normal coronary arteries probably due to selective arteritis.

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