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Doctor in mid-surgery heart scare - BBC Health News 24th March 2009
An Italian surgeon is recovering after completing a brain operation despite suffering an angina attack during the procedure, media reports say.
Claudio Vitale, 59, insisted on finishing the surgery in Naples before undergoing his own operation to clear an artery, Ansa news agency said.
Ask the doctor: Could the pain in my chest by angina? - Daily Mail 9th March 2009
I'm 41 and lately I've been experiencing pains in my chest, which sometimes spread to my left arm and my throat. I sometimes sweat and feel breathless, nauseous and generally unwell. I'm worried because my mother has angina and had a heart attack and my aunt died young from a massive heart attack.
Fancy footwork helps give heart op patients a lifeline - Liverpool Daily Post 30th December 2008
HEART transplant patients, angina sufferers and diabetics could soon be learning fancy footwork on dance mats to help them keep fit.
Hope University are working with professors from Broadgreen Hospital’s angina and rehabilitation centre to tailor a dance and virtual world computer system.
'Painful legacy' of heart attack - BBC Health News 27th December 2008
One in five people recovering from a heart attack is still having chest pain a year afterwards, a US study suggests.
The journal Archives of Internal Medicine reported some suffered angina every day, despite bypass surgery.
ECG test for angina patients is found to be 'worthless' - Daily Mail 14th November 2008
An NHS test to assess a patient's risk of heart attack is worthless, a study has found.
The electrocardiogram, which records the electrical impulses produced by a heart's rhythm, is not accurate enough to pick up those at risk of developing heart disease.
The researchers said the NHS must find a better way of predicting risk to stop people dying unnecessarily. Simply talking to patients about their symptoms would be more effective.
Thousands missing out on little-known inflatable cuff treatment that ends angina misery - Daily Mail 4th November 2008
Thousands of Britons are missing out on an effective treatment for angina - simply because most doctors know nothing about it.
Angina
Angina is one of the symptoms of heart disease - it occurs as a result of a blockage in an artery which prevents oxygen-rich blood reaching the heart muscle.
Angina team pioneers - Liverpool Echo 17th October 2008
THE pioneering work of a Liverpool health centre to combat an extreme form of angina should be spread across the country.
Knowsley North MP George Howarth praised Broadgreen hospital’s award-winning National Refractory Angina Centre (NRAC) during a parliamentary debate yesterday.
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