Did this woman’s additional bouts of pain warrant emergent repeat of previously negative angiography? Ms. P, a 54-year-old African American with a known history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and ...
Answer questions and review cases on these topics and more. A patient with typical angina symptoms and angiographically normal coronary arteries has no symptoms or evidence of spasm with ergonovine ...
In patients with angina with nonobstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA), routine ad hoc coronary function testing (CFT) during initial invasive angiography combined with a disease-specific treatment ...
Reduced coronary blood flow, measured with an artificial intelligence-based imaging tool, predicted future cardiovascular ...
An advanced CT test can identify individuals with stable angina at a reduced risk of three-year adverse outcomes despite their having a high coronary artery calcium score, according to a new study. An ...
ATLANTA -- For people with stable coronary artery disease and refractory angina, a coronary sinus reducer (CSR) implant showed a symptom alleviation benefit in the small placebo-controlled ...
A type of cardiovascular disease known to physicians as microvascular angina affects the heart’s tiniest arteries and causes chest pain. The disease is sneaky, in that it doesn’t show up on ...
There’s an old myth that heart disease is a “man’s disease.” The truth is this: It’s the leading cause of death for both men and women in the U.S. If you’re a woman, you’re just as likely as a man to ...