Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) affects the coronary arteries, which deliver blood to the myocardium. CAD symptoms include stable angina, reviewed here, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS ...

This ECG (Figure 1), recorded in the emergency room, shows a wide complex tachycardia at 205 bpm. Wide complex tachycardias are more likely to be ventricular tachycardia (VT) than supraventricular ...

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

In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Wen-Yuan Ding, Jia-Min Li, Fei Zheng, Li-Li Wang, Xin-Yi Wei and Guo-Hua Li from Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Ji'nan, ...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of death in the UK. It is a progressive disease. The first presenting symptom is often stable angina (pain in the chest on exertion), which may ...

Myocardial infarction (MI) – more regularly known as a heart attack – is an acute phenomenon initiated by the interruption of blood supply to regions of the heart, causing myocardial necrosis.

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Among adults hospitalized for COVID-19, acute cardiac events are common, particularly among those ...

Prinzmetal’s angina — also known as variant angina or angina inversa — occurs with coronary artery vasospasm resulting in myocardial ischemia. The smooth muscle in the coronary wall contracts without ...

Preliminary results from an Italian registry describe the risk profile of women experiencing acute coronary syndromes and ...