Living with Angina: A Cardiologist's Guide to Dealing with Your Chest Pain and Your Doctor 2nd Edition

Living with Angina is written by a practicing cardiologist with over 36 years' experience in treating patients with coronary artery disease, angina, prior heart attack, heart surgery and angioplasty. This book will help you get well through informed communication with the doctor - a relationship that can make life, once again, normal and relatively pain free.

James A. Pantano, M.D, has been in private practice cardiology for thirty five years and is currently director of the Noninvasive Cardiac Laboratory and Heart Station as well as the Cardiac Rehabilitation Center at the Lehigh Valley Hospital Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He has studied with Dr. James V. Warren, who was his Chief of Medicine at Ohio State University after Dr. Warren left Emory University, and Dr. Leonard Sherlis of the University of Maryland, early pioneers in the development of the field of cardiology. Dr. Pantano is the author of several medical journal articles, holds patent on novel veterinary cardiac application of ACE inhibitors, enjoys making wine and rarely ever breaks 100 on a golf course. His wife, Penny, owns a swim school and children are engineers and teachers, not wanting to have to answer the phone at 2 AM.