[Status of the coronary bed in post-infarction stenocardia]. / Sostoianie koronarnogo rusla pri postinfarktnoi stenokardii.

Selective coronary angiography was performed in 80 patients with early postinfarction angina. All patients showed stenoses in at least one artery. Two vessels were affected in 37.5%, three vessels, in 51.3%, one vessel, in 11.3%. In 8.8% of cases, left coronary-arterial trunk was affected in addition to other arteries. Complete occlusion of one or several arteries was noted in 62.5%. There were marked collaterals in 20% of patients. The only difference between patients who showed relative resistance to medication and those whose condition could be stabilized was in the number of occluded vessels (69.2 and 35.1%, respectively). Coronary arterial lesions were operable in 68% of cases.

[Comparative evaluation of the results of conservative and surgical treatment of unstable angina at long-term follow-up]. / Sravnitel'naia otsenka rezul'tatov konservativnogo i khirurgicheskogo lecheniia nestabil'noi stenokardii v otdalennye sroki nabliudeniia.

Two hundred patients with unstable angina were examined. Of those, 100 were on medication only, while another 100 had undergone aortocoronary shunting. Five-year survival rate was higher, and the quality of life was better, in the surgical patients, as compared to conservative cases.