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 ...

Chest pain is one of the most common indicators that your heart isn't functioning properly. If you feel cramping, pressure, or pinching that makes you wince, it could be angina. Here's what you need ...

Angina is a specific type of chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart, often due to conditions like coronary artery disease. It typically feels like pressure, tightness, heaviness, or a ...

Angina pectoris, often shortened to angina, is chest pain or discomfort caused by reduced blood flow to the heart and most commonly - but not always - a symptom of coronary artery disease (CAD). The ...

Chest pain can be terrifying, especially when you're unsure whether it's anxiety or something more serious like a heart ...

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 ...

In patients with angina but no obstructive arteries on angiography, further testing with stress cardiac MRI improved diagnosing the cause of angina, resulting in better management and quality of life, ...

Chest pain may still be angina even when the main heart arteries look clear. Using cardiac stress MRI (a heart scan that measures blood flow with magnetic resonance imaging), testing uncovered small ...

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 ...