[Stable angina: long-term results].

We report on 345 patients who underwent percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for stable angina in a 5-year period, with an average follow-up of 34 months (range 12-72). The primary success rate was 94.5%.

[Role of cervical infections in the genesis of premature rupture of membranes].

In order to assess the importance of cervical infections due to CT, Neisseria Gonorrheae and group B Streptococci in the genesis of PMR, the authors examined 80 pregnant women suffering from this pathology who had been admitted to hospital between the 27th and 36th week of gestation. The only statistically significant causal link (p < 0.01) was cervical CT infection found in 40% of patients with PMR.

[Prognosis in patients with myocardial infarction and angiographically normal coronaries].

From a survey on 8,000 coronary angiographic studies performed in our Institute between January 1980 and June 1990, 105 patients were identified as having angiographically normal coronary arteries and myocardial infarction (MI). Coronary arteries considered as normal were subdivided in completely normal (Group I), or slightly abnormal, with minimal lesions resulting in less than 30% narrowing of a major artery, defined as mild coronarosclerosis (Group II). Thirty-five patients were excluded from the study, because of the lack of complete follow-up data; the remaining 70 patients represent the study group we examined.