It is essential to understand how our heart can betray us and the symptoms that warn us. Modern cardiology offers immediate and effective solutions, as long as we recognize when we should be concerned.

It is also useful to understand the ways in which heart surgery can help us. The advancements in pharmaceutical treatment and non-surgical interventions (balloon, stent) allow for the treatment of the vast majority of patients without the burden of surgery.

The book you hold in your hands explains the disease that affects the arteries of the heart and can lead to a heart attack, with particular reference to non-surgical heart interventions that can save us from a heart attack if we recognize the warning signs. It provides an easy understanding of a complex topic, with valuable information that could prove lifesaving for the reader or their loved ones.

It helps the reader become familiar with modern methods of addressing the disease of our time (coronary artery disease). The aim of the book is:

• to make the warning symptoms of a heart attack more widely known
• to provide practical advice/guidelines on "what to do when..."
• to raise awareness that we can prevent and treat heart attacks with relatively easy and safe interventions
• to inform that there are alternative methods for managing coronary artery disease thanks to the evolution of balloon and stent interventions and the improvement of medications that have significantly reduced the need for surgical intervention (bypass)
• to equip the patient with knowledge about each treatment method, so they can participate in the decision of their treatment.