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Coronary spasms
Coronary spasm is a condition in which an artery in a person's heart has a sudden, temporary tightening that narrows the artery and slows or stops the flow of blood to the heart muscle downstream from the location of the spasm. The person gets chest pain as if he is having a heart attack. Causes include smoking, high blood pressure, emotional stress, etc...
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Can you describe coronary spasms?
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What are the causes coronary spasms?
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What do you do?For coronary ?Spasms?
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What are the tests for coronary spasms?
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What sort of disease is coronary spasms?
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Does getting scared cause coronary spasm?
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Coronary spasms?
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Are symptoms of coronary spasms indicative of a condition or disease?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Coronary spasm among young adult is it fatal?
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Can coronary spasms caused by stress in an extremely healthy person cause other symptoms?
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A 43-year old asked:
My mother has coronary spasms. What is it in a nutshell?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Can Amlodipine worsen coronary spasm ?
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A 48-year old asked:
Are coronary spasms a ?Frequent cause of chest pain?
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A 41-year old asked:
Why is the ingestion of salt and water beneficial in dealing with coronary spasms?
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A 45-year old female asked:
What is it that your body is doing to cause these pains? Stress chest pains? Coronary spasm?
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A 31-year old asked:
How serious are coronary spasm? Is this different than a heart attack?
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A 47-year old asked:
I live in a college town with many healers who use Asian treatments. Will they work on coronary spasms?
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A 42-year old asked:
Can coronary spasms caused by stress? Cause a heart attack?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Losartan and coronary spasm with Amlodipine. Is this a safe combination ? Added losartan for BP control. Read conflicting reports about losartan ?
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A 31-year old female asked:
How can you tell the differance between coronary artery spasms & esophagus spasms? I was told probably coronary spasms, now im told might be the other
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A 27-year old male asked:
I am a poor metabolizer for CYP 2C19. I take Amlodipine for coronary spasm. Does this affect metabolism of the drug ? Or does Amlodipine not use 2c19 like Clopidogrel ?
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A 39-year old female asked:
Would coronary spasm show on ecg or troponin always? os 180mg of calcium channel blocker a high starting dose? afraid of the side effects?
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A 66-year old female asked:
Sjogren's, coronary spasms, valve regurg. Can't have mri; have interstim device. What is myocardial perfusion study? What does it show? Ok for ist
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A 25-year old female asked:
I'm having chest pain when walking, shopping, housework. Is it possible I have syndrome x or coronary spasm? Had cardiac MRI, treadmill. Echo...
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A 27-year old male asked:
Doctor wants to to a cardiac stress test. I take Amlodipine for coronary spasm and beta blocker for arrhythmia Control. I also take losartan for HBP. I still have chest pain. Will this test yield value or no since I cant stop the medications ?
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A 44-year old asked:
What exactly is meant by coronary artery spasms?
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A 27-year old asked:
How do coronary artery spasms differ from angina?
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A 39-year old female asked:
Why do I feel like i can't breathe when I have coronary artery spasms?
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A 35-year old male asked:
What's the difference between coronary artery spasm vs coronary vasospasm?
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A 35-year old male asked:
For coronary artery spasm , which medication is more effective, CARTIA or CARDIZEM ?
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