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What causes coronary spasms?
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Stress: Usually extreme stress but these are relatively rare & can often be treated with medicines.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Adrenaline: Stress, and sometimes spontaneously. It is inability of the vessel to release Nitric Oxide and thus dilate with paradoxic constriction.
Answered 1/10/2020
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