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Unstable angina will not go away. Unstable angina is a life threatening cardiac emergency we need to identify and treat it as early as possible. In Unstable angina whatever coronary artery plaques are there, in the inner layer of the coronary arteries, there will be plaque erosion resulting in the thrombus formation that reduces the blood supply to the myocardial muscle. So if you don’t identify the patients when the patient is having Unstable angina. The patient may go on developing permeant damage to the heart muscle. So the unstable angina needs to be diagnosed as early as possible and it should be treated. The treatment of Unstable angina should be treated as early as possible and initially it should be managed with medications like blood thinning medications, cholesterol reducing medications and clot formation prevention medications and also we will use the medication to decrease the demand of the heart by reducing the heart rate and also it increases the supply of the heart by giving certain medication that dilates the obstructed coronary vessels. The most important thing in unstable angina is patients requires a coronary angiogram. Coronary angiogram is a study where we inject a dye into the blood vessels, which supply the blood to the heart. That is called as coronary arteries and the dye will replace the blood and will take a fluoroscopy photo. That will give a clear idea of how many blockages are there and the treatment is decided by the nature decided by the findings we see in the coronary angiogram. If it is a single vessel obstruction we might ask the patient to undergo a percutaneous coronary angioplasty. So if there are multiple blockages, we might ask the patient to undergo coronary artery bypass grafting or if there are diffusively diseased blood vessels and if there are obstruction in the small blood vessels or if there is not a significant blockage then we might just keep the patients on oral medications. But treating the unstable angina is to prevent the future morbidity and mortality because of the cardiac problems.