Cardiac glycosides for prevention and treatment of acute coronary syndromes

Infarct Combat Project: "Fighting Heart Disease Through Information, Research and Education"

Solving the coronary-myocardial disease puzzle. Scientific breakthroughs out of the mainstream... Theories that cure!:

Main therapy: Stress reduction and sympatholytic agents

Deficient production of endogenous

Sympathetic dominance

digitalis-like compounds

by continuous stress

with alterations

in Na/K pump activity

atherosclerosis

Lowered pH with generation of

mechanical forces in blood flow

Main therapy: Cardiac glycosides

Stable angina pectoris

Coronary atherosclerosis

1. relative myocardial ischemia

Slow coronary flow

2. reciprocal contractile loss

Physical and psycoemotional stress factors /

Segmentary myocardial disease

Pharmacological factors and

negative inotropic agents

Unstable angina /

Intermediary syndrome

Infarctioning clinical picture

Primary myocardial necrosis

1. regional myocardial insufficiency

(infarction)

2. reciprocal myocardial ischemia

Secondary coronary thrombosis

Coronary stasis or fragmentation and

(not obligatory)

displacement of atheromatous

plaque by edema

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