[Clinical aspects of arteriosclerotic stenosis of the left coronary artery main stem].

Authors have found 37 significant (greater than 50%) or severe (greater than 75%) cases of left main stem stenosis (LMS) (3.4%, 35 male and 2 female) during 1097 consecutive selective coronarography. Retrospective analysis of the clinical data of the 35 male pts.

[Late post-infarction angina].

The authors survey the clinical features and therapeutic results of 88 patients suffering from late postinfarctional angina. The results of the bicycle ergometer ECG tests were negative only in the case of 8 patients. Exercise-induced silent myocardial ischaemia was registered in 45.

A study of plasma and cardiac tissue concentrations of ceftriaxone (Rocephin) in open heart surgery.

Postoperative infection following cardiac surgery procedures is a serious complication. Cephalosporines are frequently used in prophylaxis. The aim of this study was to determine whether adequate therapeutic concentrations of ceftriaxone were present in cardiac tissues and plasma after 2 g single dose administered intravenously.