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Vasospasm
This is a sudden spasm (narrowing) of a blood vessel.
Dr. Dean Giannone reviewed this
27 year experience in Internal Medicine
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What exactly is a vasospasm?
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What is vasospasm?? Are there symptoms?
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A 43-year old asked:
Are strokes or tias caused by vasospasms?
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What is a coronary vasospasm?
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Risk for fetal injury related to reduced placental perfusion from vasospasm?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Can Amlodopine be used to control coronary vasospasm In brugada syndrome patients ?
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A 31-year old male asked:
Is there a reliable non invasive test to rule out coronary vasospasm or bridging instead of a coronary angiography?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Does losartan cause elevated catechlomines? Can it induce coronary vasospasm in those at risk or can it be helpful ?
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A 45-year old asked:
What can cause the coronary arteries to undergo vasospasm?
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A 35-year old male asked:
Can beta blocker be taken for prinzmetals angina if an alpha blocker is added, so there isnt any vasospasm potential? Want off my CCB (side effects)
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A 18-year old male asked:
What are the conditions which cause vasospasm in occipital lobe of brain?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Can Lotrel be used for coronary vasospasm angina like Amlodipine is or does it have to be Amlodipine solely ?
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A 27-year old male asked about a 33-year old male:
How do Diltiazem, Verapamil and Nifedipine differ? Do they all do the same thing and work the same way as it relates to vasodilation and vasospasm?
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A 62-year old female asked:
Question about safety & research done on Prolia. I had a coronary vasospasm from Boniva (ibandronate) 7 years ago and find it hard trusting bone meds?
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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 46-year old asked:
If high bp, what is risk for fetal injury from reduced placental perfusion secondary to vasospasm?
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A 42-year old male asked:
Which of my infections (lyme, mycoplasma, or bartonella) is most likely causing my muscle spasms and vasospasms?
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A 18-year old male asked:
Is vasospasm the same as inflammation of a blood vessel in the brain?
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A 55-year old female asked:
I had an ischemic finger for 30 min following a blood donation and then kayaking the next day. Is it raynauds or vasospasm?
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A 42-year old male asked:
Wife collapsed. mouth shifted to Right side for 30min, couldn't speak confused, weakness right side of body,is this TIA n can vasospasm cause it. she admitted hospital since yesterday?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Nurse stopped Nimodipine 3 days after Subarachnoid hemorrhage with associated vasospasm, was the decision okay? No side effects/allergies from med
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A 22-year old female asked:
For chest pain/possible coronary artery vasospasms/Prinzmetal angina... How long does it take for Diltiazem to ease the pain?
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A 27-year old male asked:
If my docs diagnosed me w blood vessel weakness & vasospasms, should I avoid swimming in cold water? Could the vessel contraction damage my vessels?
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A member asked about a 47-year old female:
What is proper time for DSA test for a patient suffering SAH and vasospasm if aneurysm not detected in CT angiography Headache started on 13 th April.
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A 27-year old male asked:
Is it better to take isosorbide mononitrate 10 mg tab before bed or in the morning ? Will it last long enough to cover me during sleep? I have coronary vasospasm/micro vascular angina and history of v tach?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Can lumbar spinal stenosis lead to vasospasms with Livedo Reticularis and Petechiae rashes present? Or must those two be from vascular disease?
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A 27-year old male asked:
EXCITOTOXICITY...what are the symptoms? I have tinnitus, buzzing sounds that appear to be coming from middle of my head, visual static, hyperacusis, light sensitivity, anxiety, insomnia, as well as vasospasm, palpitations, tachycardia. Are these potenti
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A 57-year old male asked:
Can coronary vascospasm give you stomach pains?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Am I dying?
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Am I dying?
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