Clinical predictors of in-hospital prognosis in unstable angina: ECLA 3

American Heart Journal

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 322-331

  Bazzino, O ^a   Diaz R ^b   Tajer, C ^b   Paviotti, C ^b   Mele, E ^b   Trivi, M ^b   Piombo, A ^b   Hirschson Prado, A ^b   Paolasso, E ^b  

^a HOSPITAL ITALIANO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CREATINE KINASE; HEPARIN; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SMOKING; ST SEGMENT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0032911669     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/hj.1999.v137.93029     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. 1. National Center for Health Statistics. Detailed diagnosis and procedures for patients discharged from short stay hospitals. Hyattsville (MD): US Department of Health and Human Services; 1987.
2. 2. Lewis HD, Davis JW, Archivald DG, et al. Protective effects of aspirin against myocardial infarction and death in men with unstable angina. N Engl J Med 1983;309:396-403.
3. 3. Cairns JA, Gent M, Singer J, et al. Aspirin, sulfinpirazone or both in unstable angina. N Engl J Med 1985; 313:1369-75.
4. 4. Theroux P, Quimet H, McCans J, et al. Aspirin, heparin or both to treat acute unstable angina. N Engl J Med 1988;319:1105-11.
5. 5. Neri Serneri GG, Sensini GF, Poggesi L, et al. Aspirin or alteplase in reduction of myocardial ischemia in refractory unstable angina. Lancet 1990;335:615-8.
6. 6. Granbow DW, Topol EJ. Effect of maximal therapy on refractoriness of unstable angina pectoris. Am J Cardiol 1992;70:577-81.
7. 7. Russell R Jr, Moraski R, Kouchoukos N, et al. Unstable angina pectoris. National Cooperative Study Group to compare surgical and medical therapy. II: In hospital experience and initial follow-up. Am J Cardiol 1978;42:839-48.
8. 8. Luchi RJ, Scott SM, Deupree E, et al. Comparison of medical and surgical treatment for unstable angina pectoris: results of a Veterans' Administration cooperative study. N Engl J Med 1987;316:977-84.
9. 9. Myler RK, Shaw RE, Stertzer SH, et al. Unstable angina and coronary angioplasty. Circulation 1990;82(Suppl II):88-95.
10. 10. Mulcahy R, Daly L, Graham I, et al. Unstable angina: natural history and determinants of prognosis. Am J Cardiol 1981;48:525-8.
11. 11. Bertolasi CA, Tronge J, Carreño CA, Jalon J, Vega M. Unstable angina: prospective and randomized study of its evolution with and without surgery. Am J Cardiol 1974,33:201-8.
12. 12. White L, Lee T, Cook E, et al. Comparison of the natural history of new onset and exacerbated chronic ischemic heart disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 1990;16:304-8.
13. 13. Krauss K, Hutter AM, De Sanctis R. Acute coronary insufficiency course and follow-up. Arch Intern Med 1972,129:808-13.
14. 14. Gazes PC, Mobley EM, Faris H, Duncan R. Preinfarctional unstable angina. Prospective study ten year follow-up. Prognostic significance of ECG.
15. 15. Ouyang P, Brinkler JA, Mellits ED, et al. Variables predictive of successful medical therapy in patients with unstable angina, selection by multivariate analysis from clinical ECG and angiographic evaluations. Circulation 1984;70:367-76.
16. 16. Cohen M, Hawkins I, Greenberg S, et al. Usefulness of ST segment changes in >2 leads on the emergency room ECG in either unstable angina or non Q wave myocardial infarction in predicting outcome. Am J Cardiol 1991;67:1368-73.
17. 17. Langer A, Freeman M, Armstrong P. ST segment shift in unstable angina: pathophysiology and association with coronary anatomy and hospital outcome. J Am Coll Cardiol 1989;13:1495-502.
18. 18. Haines D, Raabe D, Gundel W. Anatomic and prognostic significance of new T wave inversion in unstable angina. Am J Cardiol 1983; 52:14-8.
19. 19. Zwanc C, Bar F, Janssen J, et al. Angiographic and clinical characreristics of patients with unstable angina showing an ECG pattern indicating critical narrowing of the proximal LAD coronary artery. Am Heart J 1988;117:657-65.
20. 20. Bar F, Verheugt FW, Col J, et al. Thrombolysis in patients with unstable angina improves the angiographic but not clinical outcome. Results of UNASEM, a multicenter randomized placebo controlled clinical trial with Anistreplase. Circulation 1992;86:131-7.
21. 21. Barbash G, White H, Modan M, et al. Significance of smoking in patients receiving thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: experience learned from the international TPA-SK Mortality Trial. Circulation 1993;87:53-7.
22. 22. Barbash GI, Reiner JS, Granger CB, et al. Smoking and acute myocardial infarction survival: demographic and quantitative angiographic foundations for the smoker "paradox." Circulation 1994;90:1-201.
23. 23. Cohen M, Weatherley B, Lee K, Gurfinkel E, Frommel G, Gencell R, et al. Multivariate analysis of predictors of recurrent ischemic events and death in unstable angina and non Q wave infarction after treatment with combination antithrombotic therapy: results from the ESSENCE trial [abstract]. J Am Coll Cardiol 1997;96(suppl I):1-596.
24. 24. Braunwald E. Unstable angina: a classification. Circulation 1989; 80:410-4.
25. 25. The TIMI-IIIB Investigators. Effect of tissue plasminogen activator and a comparison of invasive and conservative strategies after treatment in unstable angina and non Q wave myocardial infarction. Circulation 1994;89:1545-56.
26. 26. Aggresive versus conservative management in patients recovering from acute non Q wave myocardial infarction: results from the VA non Q wave infarction strategies in-hospital (VANQWISH Trial). Presented at the European Heart Association meeting, Stockholm, Sweden: August 25, 1997.
27. 27 De Servi J, Ghio S, Ferrario M, et al. Clinical and ECG findings in angina at rest. Am Heart J 1986:111-16.
28. 28. Pozzatti A, Bugiardini R, Borghi A, Ottani F, Muzia Puadu P. Transient ischemia refractory to conventional medical treatment in unstable angina. Angiographic correlates and prognostic implications. Eur Heart J 1992;13:360-5.
29. 29. Theroux P. Angiographic and clinical proggression in unstable angina. From clinical observations to clinical trials [editorial]. Circulation 1995;91:2295-8.
30. 30. Theroux P, Waters D, Qiu S, et al. Aspirin vs heparin to prevent myocardial infarction during the acute phase of unstable angina. Circulation 1993;88:2045-8.
31. 31. FRISC study group. Low molecular weight heparin during instability in coronary artery disease. Lancet 1996;347:561-8.
32. 32. Cohen M, Demers CH, Gurfinkel E, Turpie AGG, Fromell GJ, Langer A, et al. A comparison of low molecular weigth heparin with unfractioned heparin for unstable coronary artery disease. N Engl J Med 1997;337:447-52.
33. 33. The GUSTO-IIB Investigators. A comparison of recombinant hirudin with heparin for the treatment of acute coronary syndromes. N Engl J Med 1996;335:775-82.
34. 34. Califf R for the PURSUIT investigators. Platelet IIb/IIIa in unstable angina: receptor suppression using Integrelin trial (PURSUIT). Presented at the European Heart Association meeting, Stockholm, Sweden: August 25, 1997
35. 35. The Platelet Receptor Inhibition In Ischemic Syndromes Management in Patients Limited by Unstable Signs and Symptoms (PRISM PLUS) study investigators. Inhibition of the platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa with tirofiban in unstable angina and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med 1998;358:1488-97
36. 36. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Diagnosing and Managing Unstable Angina. US Department of Health and Human Services; March 1994.
37. 37. Rizik DG, Shaun Healy RN, Margulis A, Vandam D, Bakalyar D, Timmis G, et al. A new clinical classification for hospital prognosis of unstable angina pectoris. Am J Cardiol 1995;75:993-7
38. 38. Calvin JE, Flein LW, VanderBerg BJ, et al. Risk stratification in unstable angina: prospective validation of the Braunwald classification. JAMA 1995;273:136-41.
39. 39. Hamm CW, Ravkilde J, Gerhardt W, et al. The prognostic value of serum troponin T in unstable angina. N Engl J Med 1992;327:146-50.
40. 40. Lindhal B, Venge P, Wallentin L, for the FRISC Study Group. Relation between Troponin T and risk of subsequent events in unstable coronary artery disease. Circulation 1996;93:1651-7.
41. 41. Liuzzo G, Biasucci LM, Gallimore JR, et al. The prognostic value of C-reactive protein and serum amyloid A protein in severe unstable angina. N Engl J Med 1994;331:417-24.
42. 42. Toss H, Lindhal B, Siegbahn A, Wallentin L, for the FRISC Group. Prognostic influence of increased fibrinogen and C-reactive protein levels in unstable coronary artery disease. Circulation 1997; 96:4204-10.