Cardiac syndrome X (CSX) continues to be a mystery for clinicians who see patients with symptoms suggestive of obstructive coronary disease but who in fact lack evidence of coronary obstruction. Mysterious, this syndrome also stands out by the fact that it appears to preferentially affect women. In this supplement issue of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology (CJC) focused on persistent cardiac p...

The prevalence of microvascular angina is estimated to be up to 30% of stable angina patients with non-obstructive coronary arteries. 19% of women presenting with acute coronary syndrome, 30% of women presenting with unstable angina, 9.1% of women with non-STelevation myocardial infarction and 10% of women with ST-elevation myocardial infarction were determined to have normal or nonobstructive ...

OBJECTIVES This study was aimed at assessing both stimulated insulinemia and the sodium-lithium countertransport in a selected group of patients with cardiac syndrome X. BACKGROUND Hyperinsulinemia, which is frequently present in patients with cardiac syndrome X, is often associated with an enhanced activity of the sodium-lithium countertransport, an in vitro marker of sodium-hydrogen exchang...

patients with syndrome x coronary disease represent a heterogeneous group of patients. medical treatment with dilators and calcium channel blockers are not very effective. we evaluated the use of transmyocardial laser revascularization (tmlr) in treating 5 patients with this syndrome. between may 2002 to december 2005, 5 patients with cardiac syndrome x (mean age of 49.7 years) underwent tmlr. ...

idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome represents a heterogeneous group of leukoprolifrative disorders associated with prolonged eosinophilia of an undetectable cause with multi organ system dysfunction. it is a rare group disorder in children, most cases are reported in adult age group. we report a child with this syndrome who along with the usual features of the syndrome also had the presentat...