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Your doctor may diagnose angina based on your medical history, a physical exam, and diagnostic tests and procedures. These tests can help assess whether you need immediate treatment for a heart attack. Some of these tests may help rule out other conditions.

Cardiac catheterization takes place in a catheterization laboratory, or cath lab, which is similar to a small operating room. A long thin tube called a catheter is inserted via a needle, guidewire, and sheath into a blood vessel leading to the heart.

There are many types of conduction disorders that can occur anywhere along the cardiac conduction system: at the sinoatrial (SA) node, the atrioventricular (AV) node, or the bundle branches. The problem can be with signal generation, how the signal travels through the heart, or both. Disorders can occur on a much smaller level within ion channels in a heart muscle cell that work together to make the heart cell contract.

La angina ocurre cuando el músculo cardíaco no recibe suficiente sangre rica en oxígeno. Las afecciones médicas, en particular la cardiopatía isquémica, o ciertos hábitos pueden provocar angina. Para comprender las causas de la angina, es importante saber cómo funciona el corazón.

Hay muchos factores de riesgo para la enfermedad isquémica del corazón. Su riesgo de enfermedad isquémica del corazón aumenta con el tipo y la cantidad de factores de riesgo que tiene, y qué tan graves son. Algunos factores de riesgo, como la presión arterial alta y el colesterol alto en la sangre, se pueden cambiar a través de cambios en el estilo de vida saludable para el corazón. Otros factores de riesgo, como el género, la edad avanzada, los antecedentes familiares y genéticos, y la raza y el origen étnico no se pueden modificar.

There are many different types of vasculitis that affect different blood vessels throughout the body.

You may have an increased risk for a pleural disorder because of your age, your family history and genetics, your lifestyle habits, medicines you take, other medical conditions, and your sex.

Practicar actividad física con regularidad y disminuir el estilo de vida sedentario pueden mejorar el estado físico y reducir muchos factores de riesgo de las enfermedades del corazón, entre ellos, reducir los niveles de colesterol LDL (“colesterol malo”), aumentar los niveles de colesterol HDL (“colesterol bueno”) en la sangre, controlar la presión arterial alta y ayudarle a perder el exceso de peso.

Cardiac rehabilitation, also called cardiac rehab, is a medically supervised program for people who have had a heart attack, heart failure, heart valve surgery, coronary artery bypass grafting, or percutaneous coronary intervention. Cardiac rehab involves adopting heart-healthy lifestyle changes to address risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Coronary angiography is a procedure that uses contrast dye, usually containing iodine, and x ray pictures to detect blockages in the coronary arteries that are caused by plaque buildup.