The clinical records of 1,000 patients who had adequate selective cine coronary arteriography
were reviewed. The clinical diagnoses were made by a physician who had no knowledge …

Ergonovine maleate was evaluated as a provocative agent for inducing coronary spasm
during coronary arteriography. The study group consisted of 98 patients with either mild fixed …

CHLOROQUINE and hydroxychloroquine are antimalarial agents that are often used in the
treatment of collagen vascular diseases. However, both drugs can cause a toxic skeletal-…

The distribution of obstructions exceeding 30% of the normal diameter of the lumen of one
or more major coronary arteries was studied in 627 of 1,000 patients who had selective …

The first “selective” coronary arteriogram was made 50 years ago by Dr. F. Mason Sones at
the Cleveland Clinic. Soon afterward coronary arteriography was developed as a diagnostic …

Of a group of 723 men less than 40 years old who underwent cinecoronary arteriography
primarily for evaluation of chest pain, 357 (49%) were found to have at least 50% narrowing of …

The purpose of this study was determination of the prognostic value of clinical and tissue (biopsy)
findings of 139 patients with cardiomyopathy. The types of cardiomyopathy were …

EFFors to improve coronary insuffi-ciency by surgical means began more than three decades
ago. It is not the scope of this report to list the various procedures nor to give credit to the …

A thin-walled Silverman needle has been used for 254 percutaneous punch biopsies of the
left ventricle in 198 patients with closed chests at the Cleveland Clinic. The technic is …

From July, 1970, to December, 1973, manual endarterectomies were performed on 330
coronary arteries in 315 patients. The procedures were performed on either an elective or …