[Chest pain in a woman previously treated with irradiation].

A 34-year-old woman developed chest pain during exercise. She had been treated for Hodgkin lymphoma with irradiation (mantle field) and cytotoxic drugs (ABVD) 15 years earlier, and had risk factors for coronary artery disease (smoker status and family history). An exercise ECG showed significant ST depressions and an echocardiogram was normal.

Clinical benefit of small vessel stenting: one-year follow-up of the SISCA trial.

Objective: To assess the long-term clinical benefit of elective stenting as compared with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in small coronary arteries.

Design: The Stenting in Small Coronary Arteries (SISCA) trial was a randomized trial comparing elective stenting with PTCA in coronary arteries with a reference diameter of 2.1-3.