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 ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A study at Mayo Clinic suggests that an hourglass-shaped stent could improve blood flow and ease severe and reoccurring chest pain in people with microvascular disease. Of 30 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Microvascular angina is a significant health problem that confers risk for major adverse CV events, according to ...

New research provides robust evidence that cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) can noninvasively and accurately detect microvascular coronary obstruction in patients with angina. In the first of two ...

Exercise electrocardiographic (ECG) stress tests appeared to reliably indicate that some patients with angina with nonobstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA) actually had coronary microvascular ...

SAN DIEGO — Patients presenting with severe angina but no obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) during coronary angiography might benefit from more invasive tests that can spot microvascular ...

Share on Pinterest New research examines the risks associated with a condition called microvascular angina. Photos by Rob Jones III/Getty Images The medical community once believed that microvascular ...

Once considered a mysterious “black box” problem, sometimes known as syndrome X, angina without focal obstruction in the large coronary arteries is not a benign condition and should prompt aggressive ...

Among angina patients without obstructive CAD, men and women have similar microvascular function on the index of microcirculatory resistance (IMR), but coronary flow reserve (CFR) is lower in women, ...