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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.

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Mechanical heart

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.

Etude sur le coeur senile : lesions du coeur, consecutives a l'atherome des coronaires / par Ernesto Odriozola.

Cardiac fibrosis as a result of coronary obstruction / by G. A. Gibson and Robert Muir.

Coronary heart disease, a personal, clinical study / by Harold Feil.

Healthy heart handbook : how to prevent and reverse heart disease, lower your risk of heart attack and cancer, reduce stress and lose weight without hunger / Dr. Neal Pinckney.

A contribution to the pathology of the coronary arteries of the heart : based upon an analysis of 238 cases in which the condition of these arteries was ascertained after death : with observations upon the relationship of disease of these vessels to sudden death and angina pectoris / by John Lindsay Steven, M.D., Physician and Lecturer on Clinical Medicine, Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

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Etude sur le coeur senile : lesions du coeur, consecutives a l'atherome des coronaires / par Ernesto Odriozola.

Cardiac fibrosis as a result of coronary obstruction / by G. A. Gibson and Robert Muir.

Coronary heart disease, a personal, clinical study / by Harold Feil.

Healthy heart handbook : how to prevent and reverse heart disease, lower your risk of heart attack and cancer, reduce stress and lose weight without hunger / Dr. Neal Pinckney.