PHILADELPHIA — In patients with angina but no obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), low coronary flow reserve (CFR) detected in the cath lab can provide a clear diagnosis of coronary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may surprise you—up to half of patients with chest pain don’t have blocked arteries. So what’s causing their symptoms? This ...

A new review highlights the potential role of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in improving the early diagnosis and targeted intervention of coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD)—a condition ...

Invasive coronary functional testing to identify the cause of angina in patients with nonobstructive coronary artery disease (ANOCA) can be performed safely at both experienced and less-experienced ...

Chest pain can be frightening, especially when tests show your major heart vessels look clear. Many women in particular live with this confusing problem, only to later learn that the trouble lies in ...

Diabetic retinopathy develops through complex microvascular damage driven by chronic hyperglycemia, yet traditional risk factors such as disease duration or glycemic control explain only part of ...

NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) May 16 - Microvascular disease may predict subsequent development of type 2 diabetes mellitus even in patients thought to be at low risk, according to results of a study ...

Empagliflozin reduced proinflammatory cytokines and oxidative stress markers in INOCA patients with CMD, improving vascular health. Treatment led to favorable shifts in endothelial extracellular ...

Smartphone-based retinal imaging captures postural vascular changes that may serve as early markers for diabetic retinopathy progression.