Living With Angina: A Practical Guide to Dealing With Coronary Artery Disease and Your Doctor

Living with Angina is written by a practicing cardiologist with over 36 years’ experience in treating patients with coronary 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.

Living with Angina 2nd Edition 2011 – Pantano

Editorial Reviews

“Living With Angina is a very important addition to our knowledge of this important subject. Dr. James Pantano leaves the textbooks aside and talks directly to us. Read this book and thank me later.”

-Larry King. Mutual Broadcasting System

“To his credit, Dr. Pantano skillfully treads a delicate path between hope and reality, giving the pros and cons of each condition and outlining medical and surgical options. He tells it like it is, but with a compassion derived from exemplary training in cardiology, plus daily contact with anxious patients and their families.”

-Publishers Weekly

“I have reviewed many medical books for this column, and there is one chapter of this book I feel probably is the single most important service the author does: You and Your Doctor. Decidedly written from the doctor’s side of the fence, this small, but effective, chapter on a doctor/patient relationship should be read by every person who ever visits a doctor.”

-Dennis Cole Hill, Columnist. Daytona Herald

“The importance of communicating effectively with your physician is the theme of this book. A brief course in cardiac anatomy is threaded throughout the book as the author, a cardiologist, explains what angina is, its causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and what the patient can do to lead a normal and relatively pain-free life.”

-Book Review. Milwaukee Journal

“The success of books about coronary artery disease depends on the author’s knack for explaining the issues clearly and accurately, using nontechnical language and analogies that a lay reader can easily understand. Dr. James Pantano succeeds on all counts.”

-The New MD Magazine

“How can one control the fear that must accompany any sudden chest pain? One good way is by educating ourselves about angina, and a good book might be Living With Angina by James. A Pantano, M.D. It dispenses vital medical information about angina in simple, easy to understand language.”

-Delaware Valley Magazine

“Thank you for writing a book designed to be understood by the reader. I’m impressed and grateful.”

-A reader, Venice Fla.

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 a 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.