Impaired endothelial function in patients with rapidly stabilized unstable angina: Assessment by noninvasive brachial artery ultrasonography

Abstract

Patients with unstable angina showed endothelial dysfunction compared with control individuals. It is of interest that in patients whose symptoms were stabilized by medical therapy, endothelial function was restored 4 weeks after hospital discharge.

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“…Vascular studies of the brachial artery were performed noninvasively at each of the four stages, as described previously [11, 12]. The patients were investigated by high resolution imaging (Logic 7, GE, USA; Sonoline Antares, Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) of the brachial artery to assess endothelial responses from the dominant arm.…”