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 ...

THE symptoms accompanying paroxysmal tachycardia are numerous and varied. Most of them are not caused directly by the tachycardia, nor are they directly or specifically related to the underlying heart ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS — After the first major prospective study to associate percutaneous intervention (PCI) with symptom relief in stable angina captured international attention, a new analysis of the ...

Angina, the medical term for chest pain or discomfort caused when the heart muscle doesn’t get enough oxygen-rich blood, is not in itself a disease. The American Heart Association says that angina, ...

(BPT) - For the 11 million Americans living with angina, chronic chest pain caused by a lack of blood flow to the heart muscle can touch every aspect of daily life. 1 From relationships to careers and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...