Coronary artery spasms temporarily tighten the arteries that wrap around your heart. Your coronary arteries are blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to your entire heart muscle. The artery walls ...

This inhibited coronary artery relaxation, which possibly led to coronary artery spasm and acute myocardial infarction, the authors wrote. Since lidocaine is a widely used local anesthetic in clinical ...

Acetylcholine (ACh) rechallenge may be a novel method to improve detection of coexisting coronary spasm endotypes, and at the same time, assess the treatment response to nitrate-based therapies, a new ...

Women—especially younger women—have greater morbidity and mortality from myocardial infarction than men. The VIRGO study involving young patients (aged 18–55 years) suggests that delay in arrival to ...

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is an umbrella term for a range of conditions that cause reduced blood flow to your heart. Acute coronary syndrome symptoms may vary, but the underlying cause is a ...

There is a link between coronary artery spasms and anxiety. Psychological factors, such as anxiety and depression, may cause physical changes to the arteries that supply blood to the heart. Around 40% ...

During pulsed field ablation (PFA) for atrial fibrillation (Afib or AF), the additional creation of mitral isthmus ablation lines often led to vasospasm of the neighboring left circumflex artery, ...

Multimodal imaging in women presenting with myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) on angiography identified a mechanism of injury in nearly 85% of women participating in ...

In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications; DOI https://doi.org/10.15212/CVIA.2021.0021, Tao Tua, Jiang Lia, Zhenfei Fang, Xinqun Hu ...

Broken heart syndrome, also known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM), is precipitated by some form of sudden acute stress in the body, either physical or emotional. Emotional stresses include tragic ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA—In the largest study of pulsed-field ablation (PFA) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) to date, rates of major complications were low and safety events were in keeping with ...