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SUMMIT & MORRISTOWN, NJ – MARCH 2026 – Atlantic Health recently introduced new tools designed to detect cardiovascular disease in even the most often-overlooked blood vessels in the heart – an advancement that can help more people with chest pain syndromes to be treated.
Now available at Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center and soon to be introduced at Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, the CoroFlow Cardiovascular System with PressureWire™ X Guidewire provides a comprehensive assessment of coronary physiology.
This advanced platform by Abbott conducts a full physiology assessment of the entire coronary vasculature — including both the major epicardial arteries and the coronary microvasculature.
These tools can assess whether patients presenting with recurrent angina symptoms may be suffering from Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction (CMD), an often-overlooked disease in which the smallest vessels of the heart have abnormalities that are not detectable on an angiogram. Interventional cardiologist Lindsay Elbaum, MD, who recently joined Overlook’s cardiology team, has been using CoroFlow for more than four years and said it has helped offer solutions to patients whose chest pain could be missed by traditional angiograms alone.
“More than half of patients who are referred for angiograms for the evaluation of chest pain do not have significant coronary artery disease. Many may have coronary microvascular dysfunction or coronary vasospasm,” Dr. Elbaum said.
“CoroFlow opens the door to answers that will provide patients with not only a diagnosis but also treatment options,” Dr. Elbaum said. “Even in cases in which patients receive a negative result, the comprehensive nature of the system delivers peace of mind that their chest pain may not be from the heart.”
The treatment of angina has traditionally focused on disease in the three major arteries running on the surface of the heart, but those three vessels provide less than 10% of the actual blood supply to the heart muscle. The rest of the blood supply to the heart muscle comes from smaller vessels, or microvasculature, most of which are too small to be directly visualized. CMD can be assessed in the microvasculature by measuring blood flow.
The CoroFlow Cardiovascular System uses pressure and temperature data from Abbott’s PressureWire™ X Guidewire to estimate the blood flow in the microvasculature, allowing physicians to make an informed assessment of the cause of their patient’s recurrent angina. An informed diagnosis is critical in optimizing patient treatment strategies in order to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.
The journey from first experiencing symptoms to an accurate and informed diagnosis can be long and arduous for those patients suffering from CMD. Warning signs of CMD include:
- Patients presenting to the ER with chronic angina
- Patients with a negative stress test but suffering from angina
- Patients suffering from angina post-intervention such as stenting
- Patients who’ve been told they are suffering from indigestion but have found no relief for their symptoms
- Patients suffering from angina, but coronary arteries appear clear under angiography
- Female patients suffering from angina as they are inordinately affected compared to men
While CMD occurs in men and women, it tends to be more prevalent in women, said Dr. Elbaum.
“The Coroflow Cardiovascular System can definitely be an important new tool in improving heart health among women,” she added.
About Atlantic Health
Atlantic Health is at the forefront of medicine, setting standards for quality health care in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York metropolitan area. Powered by a workforce of 25,000 team members and more than 5,667 affiliated physicians dedicated to building healthier communities, Atlantic Health serves more than half of the state of New Jersey including 14 counties and 7.5 million people.
The not-for-profit system offers more than 550 sites of care, including its eight hospitals: Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, NJ, Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ, Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center in Newton, NJ, Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains, NJ, Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center in Hackettstown, NJ, Atlantic Health Goryeb Children’s Hospital in Morristown, NJ, Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute in Madison, NJ and Atlantic Health CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, NJ.
The system includes Atlantic Medical Group, part of a physician enterprise that makes up one of the largest multispecialty practices in New Jersey with almost 2,000 physicians and advance practice providers. Joined with Atlantic Accountable Care Organization and Optimus Healthcare Partners they form part of Atlantic Alliance, a Clinically Integrated Network of more than 4,000 health care providers throughout northern and central NJ.
Atlantic Health provides care for the full continuum of health care needs through 26 urgent care centers, Atlantic Visiting Nurse and Atlantic Health Virtual Visits. Facilitating the connection between these services on both land and air is the transportation fleet of Atlantic Mobile Health.
Founded by Atlantic Health, the Healthcare Transformation Consortium is a partnership of seven regional hospitals and health systems dedicated to improving access and affordability. Atlantic Health has a medical school affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University, is home to the regional campus of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Morristown and Overlook Medical Centers and is the official health care partner of the New York Jets.