[Comparative evaluation of the results of conservative and surgical treatment of unstable angina at long-term follow-up].

Two hundred patients with unstable angina were examined. Of those, 100 were on medication only, while another 100 had undergone aortocoronary shunting. Five-year survival rate was higher, and the quality of life was better, in the surgical patients, as compared to conservative cases.

[Results of the conservative treatment of patients with unstable stenocardia].

The results of conservative treatment were reviewed in 100 patients with unstable angina. In hospital, the condition was stabilized in 73% of patients, acute myocardial infarction developed in 24%, and fatal outcomes resulted in 7%. In the first year since the diagnosis of unstable angina was made, the incidence of acute myocardial infarction was 32%, with 14% mortality.

[Clinico-anatomic basis of the potential performance of aortocoronary bypass in cardiogenic shock].

A clinical and anatomic study was conducted in 50 patients with myocardial infarction aggravated by cardiogenic shock in order to substantiate the practicability and possibility of aortal-coronary shunting in such cases. Gross stenosing and occluding lesions one and more coronary arteries, localized in proximal vascular segments, were present in all the cases. Anatomical conditions in most patients with cardiogenic shock were conducive to reconstructive surgery.