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Coronary heart disease

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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.
  • HMG-CoA reductase
  • Mechanical heart
  • HMG-CoA reductase
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
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    Etude sur le coeur senile : lesions du coeur, consecutives a l'atherome des coronaires / par Ernesto Odriozola.

    Odriozola Ernesto, 1862-1921. | Date: 1888
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    Cardiac fibrosis as a result of coronary obstruction / by G. A. Gibson and Robert Muir.

    Muir Robert, Sir, 1864-1959. | Date: 1894
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    The heart : technical terms explained / British Heart Foundation.

    | Date: 1990
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    Coronary heart disease, a personal, clinical study / by Harold Feil.

    Feil, Harold, 1889- | Date: [1964]
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    K patologicheskoi anatomii serdtsa pri sklerozie vienechnykh arterii : iz patologo-anatomicheskoi laboratorii prof. N.P. Ivanovskago : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / Iakova Gofmana.

    Gofman, Iakov. | Date: 1886
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