Airway hyperresponsiveness in patients with coronary spastic angina: relationship between coronary spasticity and airway responsiveness.

Background: Several reports have suggested a possible link between bronchial asthma and coronary spasm, but the possibility of a relationship in coronary spastic angina (CSA) has not been clarified.

Methods And Results: Airway responsiveness to methacholine and coronary spasticity to acetylcholine were examined in 42 patients with CSA and 36 patients with chest pain syndrome (CP). Furthermore, 18 control subjects were examined and their airway responsiveness compared with that of the CSA and CP patients.

[Complex myxoma detected by syncope: a case report].

A 23-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for evaluation of syncope and intracardiac masses. Echocardiography revealed three masses in the right ventricle and one in the left ventricle. The largest mass, 4 by 5 cm, occupied the right ventricular outflow tract and prolapsed through the pulmonary valve orifice.