Chest Pain with Normal Coronary Arteries A Multidisciplinary Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kaski, Juan Carlos (Editor), Eslick, Guy D. (Editor), Bairey Merz, C. Noel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

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...