[Up-date of the diagnosis and treatment of vasospastic angina]

Vasospastic or Prinzmetal's variant angina as it is also known is a special type of ischemic heart disease characterized by spontaneous episodes of chest pain accompanied by transitory ST segment elevations during the episodes. These alterations are essential for its diagnosis and it is difficult to diagnose it in their absence. If clinical suspicion is high, it should be confirmed by coronary vasospasm provocation tests, since, on the contrary, there may be cases that are not diagnosed or considered to be other types of diseases. Furthermore, progression of this type of angina to a myocardial infarction due to coronary stenosis is a relatively uncommon event.