For the diagnosis of various diseases, there are many ways. But there are situations when the manifested symptom does not say absolutely nothing: it can be both a minor spasm of the muscle, and a sign of the development of a serious disease. One of the most dangerous localizations of the pain syndrome is the chest area, because the heart located there is one of those organs, in the event of failure of which the person's life can end. That is why correctly recognizing the source of pain is an extremely important task and a group of scientists from the University of Glasgow recently presented a new 20-minute test, which is 6 times more effective than existing methods..

According to the press service of the university, the new method can be used not only to monitor the condition of the body, but also to find hidden violations in the work of the heart. The new test (which does not yet have a name) is based on the use of a flexible, hypersensitive wire that is placed through the veins of the lower extremities into the heart cavity. This device is able to measure the flexibility of vessels, their patency and the presence of places that impede the flow of blood.. The fact is that chest pains usually arise from the fact that the heart does not receive enough blood enriched with oxygen.. Moreover, most of these vessels are of such small size that it is very difficult to detect them with existing methods..

In the trials of the new test, 151 patients took part, each of whom suffered from angina pectoris. This disease is associated with impaired blood flow and the appearance of chest pains.. All of them underwent a standard procedure for this disease called angiography. After that, the same patients conducted a new test and it turned out that the determination of the constricted vessels occurred 6 times more often when using the new method. At the same time, although it requires a greater qualification than the removal of an ordinary electrocardiogram and is invasive, it still requires no more than 20 minutes to conduct.. The researchers who developed the method believe that it is believed that it should be included in standard clinical trials of patients who have chest pain complaints..

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