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

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 ...

In what is believed to be the first randomized placebo-controlled trial of its kind, patients with a chronic total blockage of a coronary artery who received a nonsurgical procedure to reopen the ...

Known globally for his contributions to understanding microvascular angina, a cause of chest pain, Dr. Amir Lerman raised a family in Rochester and had a penchant for mentorship.

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 ...

Performed with favorable safety, the diagnostic yield for coronary function testing in patients with ischemia but nonobstructive arteries was found to exceed 90%.

Q: What is the difference between stable angina and unstable angina? A: Angina occurs when blood flow slows or stops through ...

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 ...

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 ...