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Only 30 years ago the diagnosis of angina pectoris "was tantamount to the issuance of a death warrant." Today the panic associated with it has gone, and after 30 more years medical science may have reduced it to the status of an interesting rarity. So says famed Cardiologist Arthur M. Master of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital in the A.M.A. Journal. Angina pectoris (literally, suffocating pain in the chest) is caused by sclerosis of the coronary arteries in a clutching, chronic form-less dramatic than the violent seizure of the heart attack, when a coronary artery actually shuts down...
...first warning signs of angina were often concealed from the doctor, only a generation ago, because absence from work for any reason usually meant loss of income. Treatment was not begun until too late. With the current emphasis on preventive medicine, this is no longer true...
Diagnosis is far more accurate nowadays because much has been learned about the variability of angina symptoms. These were formerly supposed to follow a rigid and classic pattern, with a viselike tight pain in the chest, radiating to the back and down the left arm, accompanied by fear of impending death. With the realization that one or more signs may be missing, doctors are diagnosing angina earlier and oftener...
...levels, and occasionally has been lower. The heart sounds were good. The pulse was 70 per minute. The myocardial infarction of September 1955 was well healed. The electrocardiogram showed residual changes consistent with healed infarction. There were no symptoms or findings of myocardial insufficiency (muscle weakness) or coronary insufficiency (angina). The arteries of the extremities showed no evidence of sclerosis. The circulatory tone was good. The President has shown good tolerance to increasing physical activity over the past six months. He remains on anticoagulant therapy with excellent control...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks was stricken twelve years ago with angina pectoris, a condition less likely to cause permanent heart damage than coronary thrombosis. Weeks now considers himself fully recovered, works a five-day week from...