That feeling of crushing pain in your chest can be a medical emergency, but it can also be angina pectoris, or "stable angina"—a symptom of coronary heart disease that can be managed with medication.

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MDMedically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common type of heart disease. CAD occurs when the arteries that supply ...

PARIS, France—Stable CAD patients who have angina with typical features are more likely than those who do not to achieve symptom relief from PCI, according to an analysis of data from the ORBITA-2 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PCI successfully reduced angina symptoms and frequency in select patients with chronic total occlusion.

We don't yet understand what causes the pain of angina, but a world-first study is shedding more light ...