CTSN - Coronary Artery Disease

Coronary Artery Disease References
Selected Articles
Berenson GS, Srinivasan SR, Freedman DS, Radhakrishnamurthy B, Dalferes ER Jr. Atherosclerosis and its evolution in childhood. American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1987 294(6):429-40.

Readable review of childhood risk factors for adult coronary artery disease. The authors stress that these factors should be targeted early.

Frye RL, Gibbons RJ, Schaff HV, Vlietstra RE, Gersh BJ, Mock MB. Treatment of coronary artery disease. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1989 13(5):957-68.

Basic discussion of the diagnosis and treatment of stable angina, unstable angina, myocardial infarction, and outcomes from intervention.

Wilson PW. Established risk factors and coronary artery disease: The Framingham Study. American Journal of Hypertension 1994 7(7 Pt 2):7S-12S.

A nice overview of traditional risk factors as well as recent investigations into other predictive tests.

Sources for further reading
Textbook Chapters
Chapter 7: Stenotic Arteriosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease. Cardiac Surgery (Kirklin and Barratt-Boyes), 2nd ed., 285-99.

Chapter 124: Indications for Nonsurgical Coronary Revascularization and Chapter 125: Surgical Indications for Coronary Revascularization. Glenn's Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (Baue, Geha, Hammond, Laks, and Naunheim), 6th ed., 2067-80.

Recent on-line full-text journal articles