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Chronic Angina Flashcards

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Clinical manifestations of stable angina

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Strangling and anxiety, pressure, pain, constriction, heaviness, some mild or no pain, pressure and numbess upon exercise and then gone while resting. Older patients less pressure/pain more uneasiness.

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Site of angina

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Retrosternal, radiates into neck and lower jaw (never upper jaw) or into epigastrium (right upper quadrant)-dyspepsia, SOB, burping. Often confused with cholecystitis.

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Differential diagnoses with angina

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Esophageal disorders (spasm, reflux, also helped by nitro), heartburn (related to food and posture), biliary colic, costochondral pain (Titze’s syndrome), aortic dissection

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Morning angina

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Only in morning and not the rest of the day because heart learns to cope. Pericarditis (stabbing, postural, breathing), pulmonary embolus (pleuritic, SOB), AMI

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Tietze’s syndrome

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Intense sensitivity for pain but very localized to costochondral area. Very uncomfortable.

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Physical exam of chronic angina

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Usually appear normal, signs of atheroma (xanthomata- xanthelasma on eyelids), hypertension, peripheral vascular disease (weak peripheral pulses, cardiac conditions (aortic stenosis, HOCM-hypertrophic cardiomyopathy)

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Cardiac appearance on physical exam

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Ischemia (diastolic dysfunction, raised LVEDP, transient S4 esp lying on side, decreased compliance), Papillary muscle dysfunction (not typical, makes click, NESC, late SM)

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What are the two options for anginal cause?

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Increased demand or decreased supply.

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What are the causes of increased myocardial oxygen demand?

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Heart rate increase, increased systolic BP/afterload, contractility. Ex: increased sympathetic tone

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What is the wall of la Place for wall tension?

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T=Pxr/2h

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Factors that influence coronary blood flow

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Aortic diastolic pressure, coronary pressure beyond stenosis, LVEDP, heart rate (slow-longer diastole), coronary flow reserve

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What is the only organ that gets perfused during diastole but not systole?

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The heart. Important regarding pulse pressure.

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How does decreased compliance affect the heart filling?

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Makes relaxation more difficult and pressures in diastole higher.

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How does reduced time effect curves of systolic pressure and diastolic pressure?

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If shortened by half, area under curve will be reduced by about half, making diastolic pressure time index reduced by half.

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How does increased end diastolic pressure effect curves of systolic pressure and diastolic pressure?

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If increased to half of Systolic pressure, will decrease DPTI by half

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DPTI and SPTI

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Diastolic and systolic pressure time index. Ratio between them should be about 0.8 otherwise get ischemia.

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What are the changes that decrease supply causing angina?

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Emotion, cold, thrombus (fat affects arterial wall), smoking (reduced vessel radius, etc.), Primzmetal angina (vasospasm most common in women, crazy Q waves)

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What signs are there of mixed variable threshold?

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Increased heart rate, decreased afterload (systolic BP), contractility difficult to measure. Indicates worsening condition.

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Double product

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Area under diastolic and systolic pressure: DPTI and SPTI

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Canadian Cardiovascular Society Grading of Severity of the AP

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Class I: strenuous or prolonged activity, Class II: strenuous activity brisk uphill walk, Class III: everyday activities, Class IV: at rest or minimal activity

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What tests are used to measure ischemia?

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First: history. Then tests to measure severity. Resting EKG, stress test (ergometry), radionucleotide stress (thallium), pharmaceutical (dopamine/dipyridamole), echocardiogram/radionucleotide.

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Angina diagnosis in resting EKG and causes

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Normal in 50% of patients, if there is CAD may see old MI, resting ST-T changes nonspecific, ST depression (rare, indicates severe disease), LBBB (always underlying disease, cardiomyopathy, HTN, CAD, etc), LVH (hypertension, AS, HOCM)

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Bayes Theorem

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Sensitivity, sensitivity and predictive accuracy of a test depends on its prevalence in the population. In low risk, more false positives, in high risk, more sensitive.

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What is ergometry useful for

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Severity of disease, functional limitation, prognosis. Not good for screening because prevalence is so low.

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What is the predictive value of ergometry for ST depression with chest pain?

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~95%

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What is the predictive value of ergometry for ST depression without chest pain?

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~80%

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Predictors of mutlivessel disease in ergometry

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Persistent ST depression after exercise (early onset ST depression), low exercise duration, abnormal BP response.

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What is a BP drop of over 30mmHg indicative of?

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L heart disease

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What is radionucleotide/thallium used for?

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Better screening test for CHD, MVD and stress test for those that can’t handle exercise. More accurate localisation of ischemia. Especially useful for abnormal baseline ECG. (LVH, LBBB)

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How is the radionucleotide test performed?

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  1. Inject tracer in exercising patient, 2. patient exercises for a minute, 3. patient lied down in imaging machine, 4. tracer taken up by working muscle so ischemic areas appear black
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Results of thallium high risk predictors

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Multiple areas of ischemia, lung uptake of tracer (HF), left ventricle dilatation on exercise: high risk.

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What is cardiac catheterization used for?

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Definitive diagnosis, assessment of anatomy (1,2,3 vessel disease), LV function (done by echo more now)

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Who is more likely to have single vessel disease and who probably has multiple vessel disease?

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Young patients usually only have single disease (like 40 yo smoker), older person has multiple disease because of longstanding HTN.

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How is chronic angina managed?

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Treat precipitating causes, exercise itself improves endothelial function. Reduction in risk factors (nonpharmacological and drugs). Revascularization (PTCA, CABG)

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How does risk relate to increasing LDL-C conentration?

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Increases exponentially. Important for treatment of CAD-acute and chronic.

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Pharmacological treatment for coronary artery disease

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Nitrates, beta blockers, calcium antagonists, combination therapy

37
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How do nitrates improve CAD?

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For symptoms, no improved risk, may develop dependence

38
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How do beta blockers affect CAD?

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Reduced MVO2 (both in rest/exercise, decrease systolic BP and afterload, contractility), Improve coronary flow (increased diastolic perfusion, increased distal coronary perfusion, favorable epi-endo shift).

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What are potential unfavorable effects of beta blockeres

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Increased heart size and preload, increased epicardial coronary constriction. Never proven. Asthmatics can’t take it. Fatigue, impotence.

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What are the 3 types of calcium antagonists?

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  1. Phenylalkamines (verapamil), 2. Dihydropyridines (nifedipine, amlodipine), 3. modified benzothiazepines (diltiazem)
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Verapamil usage

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Old drug, didn’t do much in low doses but great in high doses but no patent so no studies. Similar to beta blockers.

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Nifedipine usage

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Pure arterial vasodilator. Not that useful for angina by itself, decreases infarct size. Not used for MI but good for angina to prevent spasms. Not a very useful drug.

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Usage of diltiazem

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Not as good as verapamil but better than nifedipine for angina. Less useful than publicized.

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Types of Revascularization in CAD

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PTCA (catheter based: Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty), now everyone gets PCI. CABG

45
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What is PTCA used for in CAD?

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Symptomatic treatment, effects on mortality not clear in chronic (though clear improvement in acute), few randomized trials (vs CABG). Doesn’t really make patients live longer. Medical therapy just as good.

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What are the indications for CABG?

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Left main coronary artery disease occluded over 50%. However, can be treated with PCI with just as good results and fewer complications. TVD (triple vessel disease) with proximal LAD and LV dysfunction.

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