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

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

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

In what is believed to be the first randomized placebo-controlled trial of its kind, patients with a chronic total blockage of a coronary artery who received a nonsurgical procedure to reopen the ...

Prof Colin Berry describes stress CMR-based myocardial blood flow endotyping for patients with chest pain and unobstructed ...

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Chest pain may still be angina even when the main heart arteries look clear. Using cardiac stress MRI (a heart scan that measures blood flow with magnetic resonance imaging), testing uncovered small ...

Q: What is the difference between stable angina and unstable angina? A: Angina occurs when blood flow slows or stops through one or more of the coronary arteries that feed oxygen and nutrients to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a cold, windy November day and his heart is having to work that bit harder as it takes Mr M across the road. He stops as he ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Key Takeaways Ischemia is when there is a blockage of blood flow to a part of the ...