Because of stable angina pectoris, he receives isosorbide dinitrate (20 mg, 2 times/day), aspirin (80 mg, once daily), and simvastatin (40 mg, once daily).
Healthy patients should be able to compensate for lower volumes to some extent, but patients with pre-existing cardiovascular disease limiting myocardial function (such as angina pectoris) may not.
The indication for use of trimetazidine-containing products has been restricted to use as add-on therapy for the symptomatic treatment of stable angina pectoris inadequately controlled by first line therapies.
The trip took her two years and two weeks, but was not done continuously; for example, she had a three-month hospitalization for angina pectoris after her trip began.
Usually when patients with chest pains (angina pectoris) consult their doctors, only obstruction of the big arteries on the surface of the heart is evaluated.
The sympathetic stimulation may increase heart rate and cardiac output, and in patients with coronary artery disease may cause angina pectoris or myocardial infarction.
The main cause of angina pectoris is improper contractivity of the heart muscle and coronary artery disease, due to atherosclerosis of the arteries feeding the heart.
In cases when an atherosclerosis plaque and cardiac ischemia are developing gradually, the stable angina pectoris appears as the first sign of the disease.
