운동부하 검사상 무증상 심근 허혈 환자의 관동맥 병변 소견

Objectives: Silent myocardial ischemia is defined as the presence of transient ischemic alterations in absence of angina or its equivalents. In recent reports, silent ischemia comprises about 60-80% of total ischemic events in patients with symptomatic angina and its prognosis is similar to typical painful angina, So, we studied to compare the difference of coronary angiographic features between painful angina and silent angina in patients with positive treadmill exercise test. Method: We studied retrospectively coronary angiographic features of 34 patients; 20 patients with painful treadmill exercise test were grouped in A and 14 patients without pain were grouped in B. Both groups were positive in Thallium corynary perfusion scan. Results: 1) There were no significant differences in sex, age, smoking and hypertension between group A and B but diabetes were more prevalent in group A than in B(p< 0,05) 2) Total exercise duration, ST segment deviation and rate pressure product were not different between two groups in treadmill exercise test. Although treadmill score was significantly low in group A (p