| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 356 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introductory Chapters -- Cardiac Syndrome X: An Overview -- Non-Cardiac Chest Pain of Non-Esophageal Origin -- Esophageal Chest Pain -- Epidemiology and Pathogenesis -- Epidemiology of Cardiac Syndrome X and Microvascular Angina -- Healthcare Costs of Angina in Women -- Psychological Aspects: Diagnosis and Management -- Cardiac Syndrome X and Myocardial Ischemia: Pathogenesis -- Endothelial Dysfunction in Microvascular Angina -- The Pathogenesis of Vasospastic Angina -- The Coronary Slow Flow Phenomenon -- Microvascular Angina in Different Clinical Conditions -- Microvascular Angina in Essential Hypertension -- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy -- Microvascular Angina in Different Clinical Conditions: Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome -- The Transplanted Heart -- Immune Responses in Atherosclerosis and Microvascular Angina -- Microvascular Coronary Dysfunction Post-Myocardial Revascularization -- The Role of Microvascular Coronary Dysfunction in Acute Myocardial Infarction -- Diagnosis -- Diagnostic Algorithms -- Angina in Women: Epidemiology, Prognosis and Diagnosis -- The Role of Positron Emission Tomography -- The Role of MRI for Diagnosis in Women with Angina and Open Arteries -- Role of Echocardiography in Evaluation of Women with Chest Pain -- Assessment of Coronary Vasomotor Responses: Clinical Usefulness -- New Techniques for the Assessment of Coronary Microvascular Abnormalities -- Prognosis -- Cardiac Syndrome X Prognosis -- Impaired Quality of Life -- Causes, Assessment and Management -- Treatment -- Cardiac Syndrome X: Management Algorithms -- Hormonal Changes in Cardiac Syndrome X -- Role of Testosterone -- Management of Estrogen Deficiency -- Progesterone Deficiency -- Management of Pain -- Chest Pain with Normal Coronary Arteries: Future Directions |
| Summary |
The condition known as 'chest pain with normal coronary arteries' or 'cardiac syndrome X' has puzzled physicians since the advent of coronary arteriography. Although epicardial coronary artery spasm, as seen in Prinzmetal's variant angina, explains a proportion of cases of typical chest pain despite normal coronary arteriograms, many patients who seek medical attention for exertional and rest angina in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease are not variant angina cases. This syndrome therefore constitutes both a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Chest Pain with Normal Coronary Arteries has been written by many of the most active international research groups and comprehensively tackles the clinical presentation and the pathogenesis of the condition, as well as its management. Abnormalities of the coronary microcirculation have remained elusive to conventional imaging and researchers appear only recently to be making progress in obtaining much needed information in this field. The functional aspects of the coronary microcirculation, its clinical presentation and prognosis, as well as the diagnostic tests used for the assessment of microvascular dysfunction are important topics highlighted in this book, which also includes useful clinical diagnostic algorithms, thus bringing this subject closer to the practicing cardiologist. This book thus represents a practical tool for the clinician and a bank of information and new ideas for research scientists and clinical researchers interested in understanding the causes and mechanisms of the condition |
| Analysis |
Medicine |
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Medicine & Public Health |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Chest pain.
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Coronary arteries.
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Microvascular Angina
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Chest Pain
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Coronary Vessels
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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Médecine.
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Chest pain
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Coronary arteries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaski, Juan Carlos.
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Eslick, Guy D.
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Bairey Merz, C. Noel.
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| ISBN |
9781447148388 |
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144714838X |
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