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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on March 22, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(9):1007-1009; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi828
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Treatment of chronic refractory angina pectoris—light at the end of the tunnel?

Jan Erik Nordrehaug* and Mohamed Salem

Department of Heart Disease, Haukeland University Hospital, 5021 Bergen, Norway

* Corresponding author. Tel: +47 55972172; fax: +47 55975150. E-mail address: jan.nordrehaug@helse-bergen.no

This editorial refers to ‘An open label, single-centre, randomized trial of spinal cord stimulation vs. percutaneous myocardial laser revascularization in patients with refractory angina pectoris: the SPIRIT trial’{dagger} by D. McNab et al., on page 1048

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Despite increasing number of coronary interventions over recent years, there is still a considerable number of patients suffering from chronic refractory angina pectoris. The volume of no option patients is not exactly known, but has been suggested to be 30 per million inhabitants per year; other estimates are 2.5–5% of coronary angiography procedures.1,2 The group of no option patients includes those who have angina despite optimal medical therapy; they may not have been offered PCI or CABG because of severe diffuse coronary artery disease, or they who continue to experience severe angina after CABG, PCI, or both.

A considerable number of therapeutic strategies have been investigated to treat severe chronic angina, such as transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS), left stellate ganglion blockade (LSGB), endoscopic thoracoscopic symathectomy (ETS), thoracic epidural anaesthesia (TEDA), external balloon counter pulsation (EECP), stem cell therapy, and finally myocardial laser revascularization by surgical (TMR) or percutaneous (PMR) . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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