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Angina

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  • ECG trace showing unstable angina pectoris. This is the symptom of paroxysmal pain consequent to myocardial ischaemia, usually of distinctive character, location and radiation. It is thought to be provoked by a transient stressful situation during which the oxygen requirements of the myocardium exceed that supplied by the coronary circulation.
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    Observations on the history and treatment of dysentery and its combinations ; with an examination of their claims to a contagious character, and an inquiry into the source of contagion in its analogous diseases, angina, erysipelas, hospital ganrene, and puerperal fever / by William Harty.

    Harty, William, 1781-1854. | Date: 1847
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    ECG trace showing unstable angina pectoris. This is the symptom of paroxysmal pain consequent to myocardial ischaemia, usually of distinctive character, location and radiation. It is thought to be provoked by a transient stressful situation during which the oxygen requirements of the myocardium exceed that supplied by the coronary circulation.

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    Disputatio medica inauguralis, de angina inflammatoria.

    Carmichael, James. | Date: 1799
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