Never Ignore These Types of Chest Pain. Chest pain could be due to a number of reasons, ranging from anxiety to serious heart ...

We often think of chest pain as a sign of heart attack, yet chest pain doesn’t automatically mean you have a problem with your heart. There are plenty of other potential culprits—such as heartburn or ...

Chest pain represents one of the most alarming symptoms a person can experience. The immediate fear—”Am I having a heart attack?”—creates tremendous anxiety, and rightfully so. Heart attacks claim ...

Extra scrutiny is warranted to identify the underlying causes of chest pain in patients with nonobstructive coronary disease ...

For patients with chest pain who are at low risk of acute coronary syndromes, a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score of zero rules out CAD and the need for revascularization in the vast majority of ...

When patients present to an emergency department with cardiac chest pain and a nondiagnostic electrocardiogram, it can be difficult to distinguish between those who can be discharged safely and those ...

Spring Branch Medical Center's Chest Pain Assessment Center was accredited this month by the Society of Chest Pain Centers. This makes it one of seven centers in Texas to achieve such recognition, ...

Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) and vasospastic angina (VSA) are common and clinically important contributors to ...

Esophageal cancer is a serious disease that affects the esophagus, the tube carrying food from the throat to the stomach. It ...

A new study shows that emergency departments with a higher volume of chest pain cases have lower rates of adverse coronary outcomes long after those patients leave the ED. The absolute difference in ...

“Endotyping-informed therapy in the MRI-guided intervention arm led to a reduction in angina burden and an improvement in health-related quality of life,” reported the principal investigator Colin ...