Clinical trials are under way in the United States to test new uses for angiotensin I-
converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, as lab researchers around the world continue to …

Syncope.-Syncope on effort is common in patients with severe aortic stenosis and may occur
also at rest. Various suggested mechanisms include Adams-Stokes attacks from heart-block …

In this issue of Circulation, Oliver-Williams and colleagues1 elegantly demonstrate the
relatively low rate of rupture in men with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs)< 5.5 cm in …

Anaesthetists wil encounter increasing numbers of patients who are receivng long‐term
treatment with ACE inhibitors for hypertension, congestive heart fealure and prophylactically …

Objective: To examine the modern epidemiology of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)
rupture and short-term AAA-related mortality after the introduction of endovascular aneurysm …

For every 10 000 people invited to screening, 46 men avoid dying from a ruptured
abdominal aortic aneurysm. 1, 2 But for every avoided death, four men are diagnosed with …

Discusses the relationship of the deletion of polymorphism in the angiotensin-converting
enzyme (ACE) gene (DD) with the increased risk of myocardial infarction. Identification of …

In his comment on the recent meta-analysis by Lindholt and Norman 1 Lederle has stressed
the need to use age-adjusted numbers of the West-Australian aneurysm screening study in …

report that ACE inhibitors decreased pneumonia in patients with a history of stroke. We
investigated the relation between ACE inhibitors and prevention of pneumonia in elderly …

CONCLUSION Whatever the. clinical situation, coronary atheroma was well recognised at
the London Hospital before the first world war. The evidence here does not suggest that …