Heparin Treatment of Patients with Angina Pectoris

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Abstract
THE treatment of angina pectoris for many years has been directed toward relief of the heart pain either by increasing the caliber of the diseased coronary arteries or their collaterals with vasodilators or by reducing the work load of the heart. The concepts relating atherogenesis to a defect of lipid metabolism have led to more ambitious therapeutic attempts to halt or even to reverse the development of atherosclerotic lesions in the vessel walls. After an association was found between elevated serum cholesterol levels and the precocious development of coronary atherosclerosis,1 2 3 efforts were made to reduce the serum cholesterol levels, with . . .