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A heart attack is a medical emergency that requires an immediate call to the emergency services. However, there are sometimes ...

When a patient presents with chest pain, follow this doctor’s guidelines to quickly reach an accurate diagnosis and initiate life-saving treatment. For some time, cardiologists have called MIs and ...

A type of cardiovascular disease known to physicians as microvascular angina affects the heart’s tiniest arteries and causes chest pain. The disease is sneaky, in that it doesn’t show up on ...

New research reveals exercise may reprogram heart-controlling nerves, giving hope for potentially better treatments for ...

Common causes of chest and neck pain include angina, heartburn, pericarditis, or disorders of the esophagus. It’s best to seek medical attention for any sort of chest pain. There are a number of ...

Pain caused by pericarditis (shown here) is usually described as sharp and stabbing. Many sources of chest pain have nothing to do with the heart. Whether the pain is cardiac or noncardiac in nature ...

PARIS -- Whether a person had chest pains resolved by angioplasty hinged on the nature, not the severity, of their presenting symptoms, an ORBITA-2 analysis showed. Investigators found two groups more ...

Ranolazine (Ranexa, Gilead) is an effective anti-anginal therapy in patients with refractory angina; however, at one year only 59 percent of patients remained on the drug, according to a scientific ...

When it comes to coping with chronic angina -- chest pain or pressure that comes on when the heart isn't getting enough oxygen, usually during physical activity -- a positive outlook may help improve ...

Chest pain or discomfort is the most common sign of heart danger. Heart attack is the result of blockage to the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle. The extent of damage to the heart muscle ...

WE first became interested in the possibility of relieving anginal pain in patients undergoing splanchnicectomy who had severe hypertension and angina pectoris. After the pioneer work of White, 1 who ...