LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Doctors know how to spot large artery blockages when someone is experiencing heart attack symptoms, but often not those in the smaller heart ...

Patti Hutton of Liberty Township with Dr. Odayme Quesada, medical director of the Women's Heart Center at The Christ Hospital. Patti Hutton spent 15 years dealing with severe stabbing pain in her ...

After decades of misdiagnosis and missed signals, researchers are finally starting to close the gender gap that has long ...

Premenopausal women presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are a unique and often underrecognized patient population. Although they are traditionally considered at lower cardiovascular risk ...

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

A normal coronary angiogram does not always guarantee safety from a heart attack. Conditions like microvascular disease, ...

Photo Credit: Adapted from Prasad M. Case in a Box: Step-by-step Approach to Assessment of Microvascular Disease in an INOCA Patient. Presented at: TCT 2023. San Francisco, CA. For patients with ...

Garden-variety exercise stress testing can be used in patients who have angina with nonobstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA) to uncover the presence of coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), new ...

The subtle pulses of tiny blood vessels in the brain can now be mapped in greater detail than ever before using a new imaging method. It's the first noninvasive tool to measure the expansion and ...

Heart disease is a catch-all phrase for a variety of conditions that affect the heart’s structure and how it works. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. About 695,000 ...