A small carefully constructed and blinded clinical trial confirms that percutaneous intervention significantly relieves angina in patients with chronic total obstruction.

Importance Women with angina due to suspected ischaemia referred for coronary angiography often have no obstructive coronary ...

In carefully selected patients with CTOs, symptom-driven PCI does provide a benefit when done by experienced operators.

PARIS -- Whether a person had chest pains resolved by angioplasty hinged on the nature, not the severity, of their presenting symptoms, an ORBITA-2 analysis showed. Investigators found two groups more ...

Performed with favorable safety, the diagnostic yield for coronary function testing in patients with ischemia but nonobstructive arteries was found to exceed 90%.

Chest pain is one of the most common indicators that your heart isn't functioning properly. If you feel cramping, pressure, or pinching that makes you wince, it could be angina. Here's what you need ...

Angina is manifested as a chest pain that may (in case of stable angina) or may not (in case of unstable type of angina) be brought about by physical exertion or mental stress. 1-5 The heart muscles ...

In a study published in the Journal of Women’s Health, researchers followed 2,006 participants aged 50 to 89 years. At the beginning of the study, 61 men (about 7%) and 142 women (about 12%) were ...

A heart attack is an emergency situation when supply of blood to the heart is suddenly cut off. While symptoms can often be sudden and just moments before an attack, on some occasions, they can appear ...

Angina is a symptom of an underlying heart disease and is manifested as chest pain that may or may not be brought about by physical exertion or by emotional stress. Diagnosis of this condition and ...

In animals, brief episodes of ischemia before a total coronary occlusion protect the heart and result in a smaller myocardial infarct size. In humans, episodes of angina before acute myocardial ...