Cardiac Syndrome X-disguised as angina

Live in the Miss Zhang Heping District, Tianjin, the 48-year-old this year, is a secondary school teachers. She often sense of exhaustion after chest tightness, Bieqi, or even chest pain, improved after the break, the recurrent symptoms are more than five years.
Cardiac Syndrome X-disguised as angina



Over the past two years more than she had in hospital, do electrocardiogram showed that myocardial ischemic change, exercise stress test positive inspection, taking a variety of anti-angina drugs improve symptoms was not obvious. To this end, Miss Zhang day worried, thinking of increasing pressure.

A few days ago, Miss Zhang came to the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine First Affiliated Hospital of cardiac medical treatment, the coronary angiography no coronary artery and its branches narrow change, was diagnosed as cardiac syndrome X, as a "Kuanxiong Qi Huoxue" law Western medicine to patients in nearly half a month of treatment, patients with chest tightness Bieqi disappeared, symptoms improved significantly.

Miss Zhang such patients in clinic is very common in patients with chest pain similar to angina-like symptoms, heart function and no significant damage to performance, not coronary angiography coronary artery and its branches narrow change. For such patients, coronary angiography is very necessary, help to clear diagnosis. Like this repeatedly frequent angina, exercise stress test positive, and coronary angiography normal heart, called cardiac syndrome X. In recent years, with the gold standard diagnosis of coronary heart disease - coronary angiography the extensive application and found that those suffering from this disease is not uncommon.

Despite the prognosis of cardiac syndrome X mostly good, generally not for the further development of myocardial infarction or sudden death and other serious cardiac adverse effects, but the angina-like chest pain symptoms often will bring many patients suffering, or even seriously affect their normal work and The quality of life. Chest pain attacks, the use of conventional anti-angina drug treatment not ideal, patients on nitroglycerin, metoprolol, nifedipine and other different effects. Domestic numerous studies have shown that Chinese medicine in the prevention of cardiac syndrome X has certain advantages.