Unfortunately, due to the absence of symptoms and the atypical presentation of myocardial ischemia in elderly persons, CAD will not be diagnosed in many of these patients until an acute MI occurs.

improving flow in collateral circulatory channels and eventually increasing the flow to the ischemic myocardial segment and relieving the symptoms of angina. The ECG during coronary vasospasm can ...

including symptoms of angina at rest and flash pulmonary edema. A distinction should be made between myocardial ischemia and myocardial infarction. Ischemia means that the amount of blood supplied ...