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  • Title: [Early diagnosis of ischemic heart disease in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases].
    Author: Pavlov NR, Chereĭskaia NK, Afonas'eva IA, Fedorova SI.
    Journal: Ter Arkh; 1999; 71(9):52-6. PubMed ID: 10553627.
    Abstract:
    AIM: To study incidence rate, course features, principles of diagnosis and therapy of ischemic heart disease (IHD) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Standard clinical examinations, ECG, chest x-ray, echo-CG, 24-h Holter monitoring, coronarography were performed in 60 patients over 40 years of age with bronchial asthma or chronic obstructive bronchitis. Autopsy data were analyzed for 20 patients who died of COPD. RESULTS: IHD was diagnosed in 53.3% of the examinees. 70% of the patients treated with preductal (trimetasidine) benefited from the treatment: they had less frequent episodes of painless myocardial ischemia. Autopsy material has shown that COPD patients frequently suffer of aortic and coronary atherosclerosis. CONCLUSION: IHD diagnosis in COPD patients is rather difficult as there are no well-defined correlations between clinical picture of IHD and data of device investigations, IHD is painless more frequently than in general population (in 84.4% of patients in this study). Preductal is a drug of choice for treatment of IHD in COPD patients.
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