[Comparison of the effect of nitroglycerine and pentaerithritol compositum on exercise time restricted by anginal pain or objective parameters of ischaemia in patients with stable angina].

Short acting nitrates are commonly used to prevent the anginal pain. The purpose of the study was to compare antianginal efficacy of Pentaerythritol compositum (20 mg of pentaerythritol tetranitrate and 0.5 mg of nitroglicerine) and 0,5 mg of nitroglycerine.

In vitro photodynamic diagnosis of atherosclerotic wall changes with the use of mono-l-aspartyl chlorin e6. A preliminary report.

Background: Although several methods for atherosclerosis detection are available, none of them seems to be accurate enough to identify the vulnerable atheromatous plaque. Photodynamic diagnosis (PDD) and therapy (PDT) - a new method evaluated for neoplasm treatment, is a modern approach for detecting and treating atherosclerosis.

Aim: To asses in vitro the capability of PDD with the use of chlorin e6 to detect atherosclerotic plaque and the usefulness of this method as a feedback system for photoangioplasty treatment.

[Left ventricular thrombus in early phase after myocardial infarction. Risk and treatment methods based on an observed case].

A 55-year-old man was admitted to our Department four weeks after anterior myocardial infarction. A large, mobile thrombus was diagnosed on echocardiography. On the third day of hospitalization systemic arterial embolism with left femoral artery localization occurred.

[Complex coronary artery disease due to coronary spasm and atherosclerotic lesions - a case report].

We present a case of 55-year old man with a complex form of ischaemic heart disease. Except a significant narrowing of the circumflex coronary branch, a spasm of several branches of left coronary artery was found. The percutaneous balloon angioplasty and a modification of pharmacological treatment (introduction of nitrates and Ca-blockers) was effective.