What is the treatment of choice for Prinzmetal's angina? Are calcium channel blockers used in the treatment of this disease? Variant angina is most easily diagnosed by recording an ECG during an ...

Prinzmetal’s angina — also known as variant angina or angina inversa — occurs with coronary artery vasospasm resulting in myocardial ischemia. The smooth muscle in the coronary wall contracts without ...

Coronary spasm plays an important part not only in the pathogenesis of variant angina (VA) but also in ischemic disease generally, including resting and effort angina, acute myocardial infarction (AMI ...

Q. How serious is angina? A. Angina pectoris – or simply angina – is the medical term for chest pain or discomfort usually caused by coronary artery disease. Angina is a sign that someone is at ...

In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Wen-Yuan Ding, Jia-Min Li, Fei Zheng, Li-Li Wang, Xin-Yi Wei and Guo-Hua Li from Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Ji'nan, ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a 35-year-old father with two young children. Two times in the past month, I had bad chest pain while sitting and watching TV. After the second time, my wife insisted I see a ...

Long-term electrocardiographic recording is a method of recording the electrocardiogram (ECG) over extended time periods; the recording is subsequently analyzed for rhythm and ST-segment and T-wave ...