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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If angina pectoris – pain, pressure or tightness and shortness of breath – suddenly occurs even at rest, this can indicate an ...

Percutaneous coronary intervention successfully alleviated chest pain symptoms in select patients with chronic total occlusion and reduced the frequency of anginal events, a speaker ...

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 ...

In what is believed to be the first randomized placebo-controlled trial of its kind, patients with a chronic total blockage ...

Chest pain can signal heart, lungs, or digestive issues. Sharp pain with breathing may point to lungs, burning after meals to ...

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 ...

Importance Women with angina due to suspected ischaemia referred for coronary angiography often have no obstructive coronary ...

For people with stable chest pain and an intermediate pretest probability of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), an initial CT strategy fared similarly to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) ...

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 ...