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Coronary Microvascular Disease with Dr. Janet Wei

February 18, 2021 461 10
Alain Bouchard, MD

Angina can be caused by coronary microvascular disease.

How is it that some patients with chest pain end up not having obstructive coronary disease? Dr. Alain Bouchard is joined by Dr. Janet Wei in a discussion of angina without obstructive coronary artery disease. Subscribe to the MyHeart.net Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts.

Filed Under: Coronary Artery Disease, Featured Articles, Podcast Tagged With: Angina, Chest pain

Can You Die From a Broken Heart?

May 14, 2015 11423 5
Stephen Russell, MD

heart pain

My wife lost her first love recently. Preceding me by five years, this guy was a constant presence in her house when we met. He shared her bed. He slept on her sofa. He ate her food. Even when I cast questioning glances his way during the early days of our courtship, nothing changed. I…

Filed Under: Coronary Artery Disease, Risk & Prevention Tagged With: Chest pain, Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction), shortness of breath

How to Become a Cardiologist

December 23, 2014 138045 74
Anant Kharod MD

How to Become a Cardiologist

The Early Stages of Becoming a Cardiologist At myheart.net we've helped millions of people through our articles and answers. Now our authors are keeping readers up to date with cutting edge heart disease information through twitter. Follow Dr Ahmed on Twitter @MustafaAhmedMD Follow @MustafaAhmedMD If you are reading this article on how to become a cardiologist,…

Filed Under: General Health, Heart Disease Tagged With: atrial fibrillation, Blood pressure, Chest pain, Echocardiography, heart disease, Heart failure, heart valve

Troponin Levels – The Heart Attack Blood Test

November 20, 2014 308383 66
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

Troponin Levels

What does elevated troponin level mean? An elevated troponin is in general concerning for heart damage until proven otherwise. It can be from a heart attack due to a blockage or due to other conditions that place strain on the heart such as heart failure or critical illness. As discussed below there are other, non…

Filed Under: Coronary Artery Disease, Tests & Investigations Tagged With: Cardiovascular disease, Chest pain, Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction)

Afib with RVR – When The Heart Races Out Of Control

June 29, 2014 102489 25
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

Afib with RVR

What Is Afib with RVR? Afib with RVR refers to atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular rate. Usually the heart is like clockwork, the top (collecting) chambers beat then the bottom (main pumping) chambers sense this and also beat, and so on, in a nice regular fashion just like a clock ticking second after second. Usually…

Filed Under: Cardiac Arrhythmias, Heart Disease Tagged With: atrial fibrillation, Blood pressure, Cardiovascular disease, Chest pain, Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction), heart disease, Heart failure, Heart rate, heart rhythm, palpitations, shortness of breath, Stroke

Amlodipine Side Effects – What To Expect

June 20, 2014 163570 22
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

Amlodipine Side Effects

The most likely reason to be started on amlodipine is for blood pressure control. It causes relaxation and dilation of the blood vessels leading to lowering of blood pressure. The other reason people are started on amlodipine is for control of chest pain in people with coronary artery disease, amlodipine is thought to achieve this…

Filed Under: Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), Vascular Disease Tagged With: Blood pressure, Cardiovascular disease, Chest pain, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction), heart disease, Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)

Heart Blockage – Explained With Pictures!

June 8, 2014 366890 252
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

Heart Blockage – Explained With Pictures

At MyHeart.net, we've helped millions of people through our articles and answers. Now our authors are keeping readers up to date with cutting edge heart disease information through twitter. Follow Dr Ahmed on Twitter @MustafaAhmedMD. Follow @MustafaAhmedMD Heart blockage is a term commonly used by patients referring to coronary artery disease, a build-up of plaque causing…

Filed Under: Coronary Artery Disease Tagged With: Cardiovascular disease, Chest pain, Cholesterol, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction), heart blockage, heart disease, Heart failure

Did That Stent Save My Life?

November 27, 2013 108435 44
Dr. Mustafa Ahmed

Pretty much everyone knows someone who has had a stent placed in his or her heart. The story told by the patient with the stents is classic. The chest pains had been coming and going for a while, but they had been passed off as indigestion or muscle pain. Tests were done, and showed that…

Filed Under: Coronary Artery Disease Tagged With: Angina, Angina pectoris, Chest pain, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction), heart blockage, heart surgery

What Is A Stress Test?

August 22, 2013 7252 0
Dr. Julian Booker

Unless otherwise stated, any stress test referenced on a MyHeart related blog post will refer specifically to cardiac stress tests.  Other heart related stress tests like cardiopulmonary exercise tests can be discussed at a later date. In generic terms, a stress test is a procedure to indirectly determine whether there are significant blockages in your…

Filed Under: Tests & Investigations Tagged With: Angina, Chest pain, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Coronary circulation, Diabetes, Echocardiography, EKG, Electrocardiography, heart disease

Chest Pain – Part 3 – Still More Types of Chest Pain?

June 20, 2013 9547 0
Dr. Julian Booker

Chest Pain

As much as I may not want to admit it, there are other things that can cause chest pain other than issues with your cardiovascular system. Most of these things annoy me because they don’t deal with the heart but I can’t deny that they are important. We will spend this post reviewing some of…

Filed Under: Coronary Artery Disease Tagged With: Chest pain, Chronic Illness, COPD

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