Periodically repeated angina pain – often described as squeezing, pressure, heaviness, and tightness in the chest in people with a certain type of heart disease can be extremely difficult to treat, but a new hourglass-shaped stent could be a real advance, researchers report. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester said those suffering from microvascular disease – which affects tiny vessels that deliver blood to heart tissue, damaging them, improved significantly once they got the new stent. That is a big turnaround, since, "the patients with heart-related microvascular dysfunction in this study had little ability to control their chronic angina, which severely limited their day-to-day activities," said Dr.
Amir Lerman, a Mayo cardiologist and study senior author. What is angina pain? Also known as a warning of a heart attack, angina is a symptom of heart disease. It happens when your heart stops receiving enough oxygen-rich blood.
As a result, your heart may beat faster and harder to gain more blood, causing you noticeable pain. Statistics say around 10 million people in the US experience angina. So, if you have this symptom, you are not alone.
And so, according to doctors, it is important to learn more about angina, what causes it, and how to manage it in your daily life. The new stent brought significant changes in the health of patients According to the study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions, recurrent .