Pérez ACR, Vega FLF, Valladares CFJ, Navarro LJJ, García CDA

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 207-211
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ABSTRACT

The term cardiac syndrome X or microvascular angina is commonly used to describe a group of patients who show a typical chest pain, ST segment depression during exercise and angiographically normal coronary arteries. Many data suggest the symptoms may have an ischemic origin. It is more common in women, and, in almost 50% of them, anginal pain is specifically attributed to changes in the coronary microvasculature. The prognosis is not as benign as it was believed for years; therefore, in patients with angina and a normal epicardial coronary, a clinical and imaging assessment is necessary (including a careful analysis of risk factors) in order to detect a functionally significant ischemia. Therefore, coronary microvascular disease is a condition that requires attention by the attending physician. A patient with this diagnosis is reported in this article, and electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, ergometric and angiographic images are shown.

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