Title | Chest Pain with Normal Coronary Angiograms: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Management [electronic resource] / edited by Juan Carlos Kaski |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5181-2 |
Descript | XVII, 308 p. online resource |
1. Cardiac syndrome X and microvascular angina -- 2. Chest pain with normal coronary arteries: psychological aspects -- 3. Esophageal chest pain -- 4. Esophageal abnormalities and โLinked - Anginaโ in syndrome X -- 5. Abnormal pain processing in syndrome X -- 6. Insights into the pathophysiology of syndrome X obtained using positron emission tomography (PET) -- 7. Myocardial metabolism in cardiac syndrome X -- 8. Endothelial dysfunction in cardiac syndrome X (microvascular angina) -- 9. Endothelin: an important mediator in the pathophysiology of syndrome X -- 10. Estrogen deficiency and syndrome X -- 11. Alternative mechanisms for myocardial ischemia in syndrome X - New diagnostic markers -- 12. Increased plasma membrane ion-leakage: A new hypothesis for chest pain and normal coronary arteriograms -- 13. A possible cell membrane defect in chronic fatigue syndrome and syndrome X -- 14. The changing concept of syndrome X -- 15. Assessment of coronary blood flow reserve -Techniques and limitations -- 16. The role of echocardiography in diagnosis and management of cardiac syndrome X -- 17. Imaging in microvascular angina โ whatโs new? -- 18. Assessment of quality of life in patients with syndrome X -- 19. Treatment of patients with angina and normal coronary arteriograms -- 20. Management strategies for chest pain in patients with normal coronary angiograms -- 21. Abnormal autonomic nervous control of the cardiovascular system -- 22. The metabolic syndrome -- 23. Two syndromes X 251 -- 24. Hyperlipidemia and endothelial vasodilator dysfunction: The pathogenetic link to myocardial ischemia -- 25. Microvascular dysfunction in patients with systemic hypertension without left ventricular hypertrophy: The role of nitric oxide -- 26. Microvascular angina and hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy -- 27. Myocardial ischemia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Clinical assessment and role in natural history -- 28. Microvascular endothelial dysfunction after heart transplantation