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Aortocoronary Bypass Surgery in “Asymptomatic” Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

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Silent Myocardial Ischemia

Abstract

Serious obstructive coronary atherosclerosis need not be associated with angina pectoris; long recognized at the autopsy table, this fact has been known to coronary angiographers for some 17 years [1,2] and its functional consequences for almost as long [3]. Evolving clinical awareness of this apparent paradox is illustrated in the titles of two editorials by the same author, Cohn: Severe Asymptomatic Coronary Artery Disease in 1977 [4] and Silent Myocardial Ischemia in Patients with a Defective Anginal Warning System in 1980 [5], A recent seminar on asymptomatic coronary artery disease [6] attests to the widespread serious interest in this topic, as does the symposium of which this presentation forms a part.

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  1. Gerald M. FitzGibbon
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  1. Centre de Cardiologie, Hôspital Cantonal Universitaire, CH-1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    W. Rutishauser

  2. Benedikt-kreutz-Rehabilitationszentrum für Herz-und Kreislaufkranke, Südring 15, D-7812, Bad Kronzingen, Germany

    H. Roskamm

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FitzGibbon, G.M., Burton, J.R., Keon, W.J. (1984). Aortocoronary Bypass Surgery in “Asymptomatic” Patients with Coronary Artery Disease. In: Rutishauser, W., Roskamm, H. (eds) Silent Myocardial Ischemia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69589-6_29

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