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Management of Stable Angina Pectoris

Pocket Guidelines

Publication Date: 2006

Chairperson: Kim Fox


Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Diagnosis and Assessment
    • Symptoms and signs
    • Laboratory tests
    • Chest X-ray
    • Resting ECG
    • ECG stress testing
    • Stress testing in combination with imaging
    • Echocardiography at rest
  • Treatment 
    • General management
    • Considerations
    • Pharmacological treatment to improve prognosis
    • Pharmacological treatment of symptoms and ischaemia
    • Coronary artery bypass surgery
    • Percutaneous coronary intervention
    • PCI versus surgery
    • Specific patient and lesion subsets
    • Revascularisation versus medical therapy
  • Special diagnostic considerations: angina with normal coronary arteries
      • Syndrome X
      • Vasospatic / Variant Angina