When can I be discharged from hospital after PCI?
When there are no significant episodes of chest tightness or pain, vital signs are stable, blood pressure and heart rate are stable, myocardial ischaemia is under control and no other…
Category: Unstable angina pectoris
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Do patients with unstable angina need lipid-lowering medication even if their blood lipids are not high?
Need.Patients with unstable angina have varying degrees of coronary artery disease and should be started on statin lipid-lowering agents as early as possible (within 24 hours) regardless of lipid levels…
Do I need routine percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for unstable angina?
Not necessarily.There are two treatment strategies for patients with unstable angina: ‘early conservative treatment’ and ‘early invasive treatment’. The decision to proceed with early invasive therapy (i.e. PCI) should be…