Angina

Angina: Introduction

Angina pectoris ("angina") is a description of a particular type of chest pain related to the heart. The foremost concern is to ensure that the condition is not actually a heart attack. Other possible causes of chest pain, and there are numerous, can range from less life-threatening (e.g. reflux, heartburn, indigestion, GERD, etc.) to the extremely dangerous (e.g. heart attack, heart disorders, lung disorders and many other causes of chest pain). Always seek emergency medical attention for chest pain or other medical conditions similar to chest pain or angina.

Symptoms of Angina

• Chest discomfort
• Chest pain
• Chest tightness
• Choking feeling
• Breathlessness
• more symptoms...»

See full list of 13 symptoms of Angina

Home Diagnostic Testing

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Angina: Complications

Review possible medical complications related to Angina:

• Heart attack - Angina may be the start of a heart attack and having angina raises the risk of a later heart attack
• Heart damage - Angina usually indicates some sort of heart problem that may become serious.
• more complications...»

Medical Textbooks Online about Angina

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Diagnostic Tests for Angina

• X-rays
• Electrocardiogram (ECG) at rest
• Stress test
• Coronary arteriogram
• Nuclear stress test
• more tests...»

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Angina?

• Misdiagnosis of Angina
• Failure to diagnose Angina
• Hidden causes of Angina (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Angina

Angina: Self Assessment Tools

• Stroke -- Self Assessment Tools
• Heart Attack -- Self Assessment Tools
• Stress -- Self Assessment Tools
• Smoking -- Self Assessment Tools
• Weight Management -- Self Assessment Tools
• Heart Disease -- Self Assessment Tools
• more tools...»

Angina: Medical Mistakes

• Hypertension -- Health Mistakes
• Cholesterol -- Health Mistakes
• Obesity -- Health Mistakes
• Diabetes -- Health Mistakes
• Metabolic Syndrome -- Health Mistakes
• more mistakes...»

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Angina: Undiagnosed Conditions

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  • Hemochromatosis -- Undiagnosed
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• more undiagnosed conditions...»

Misdiagnosis and Angina

Heart attacks can be undiagnosed: Although the most severe symptoms of heart attack are hard to miss, there are varying degrees of severity. It is altogether too common for people to die from...read more »

Heart attacks can be overdiagnosed: Although many people die from heart attacks, there are also many cases where people fear that they have a heart attack, but actually have something milder. Some...read more »

Rare heart condition often undiagnosed: The rare heart condition called long QT syndrome can lead to episodes of palpitations and rapid heartbeat. In rare cases, this undiagnosed condition can be fatal....read more »

Heart attack can be over-diagnosed: Although heart attack is often undiagnosed, leading to fatality, it can also be over-diagnosed. People become concerned that a condition is a heart attack, whereas there are...read more »

Alzheimer's disease over-diagnosed: The well-known disease of Alzheimer's disease is often over-diagnosed. Patients tend to assume that any memory loss or forgetulness symptom might be Alzheimer's,...read more »

Dementia may be a drug interaction: A common scenario in aged care is for a patient to show mental decline to dementia. Whereas this can, of course, occur due to various medical conditions, such as a stroke or Alzheimer's disease...read more »

Tremor need not be Parkinson's disease: There is the tendency to believe that any tremor symptom, or shakiness, means Parkinson's disease. The reality is that there are various possibilities, such as benign essential...read more »

Blood pressure cuffs misdiagnose hypertension in children: One known misdiagnosis issue with hyperension, arises in relation to the simple equipment used to test blood pressure. The "cuff" around the arm to measure blood...read more »

Rare diseases misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease: A rare genetic disorder is often misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease for men in their 50's. The disease Fragile X disorder can show only mild symptoms in the...read more »

Hypertension misdiagnosis common in children: Hypertension is often misdiagnosed in adults (see misdiagnosis of hypertension), but its misdiagnosis is...read more »

Aortic stenosis in the elderly: Aortic stenosis is a condition characterised by the calcification of a normal valve and is more common in the elderly population. This is the most...read more »

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Angina: Research Doctors & Specialists

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• Cardiac (Heart) Specialists:
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  • Pediatric Cardiology (Child Heart Specialists)
  • Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
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• Senior Health Specialists (Geriatrics):
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  • Geriatric Psychiatry (Senior Mental Health)
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Hospitals & Clinics: Angina

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• 50 Best Hospitals Report
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• Women's Health Best Hospitals
• Patient Safety
• Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence Study (2009)

Angina: Rare Types

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• Chronic Major Diseases -- Rare Types:
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Causes of Angina

• Coronary heart disease
• Cardiovascular disease
• Atherosclerosis
• Atheroma
• Aorta conditions
• more causes...»

See full list of 38 causes of Angina

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• Medications, drugs, or substances causing Angina (78 listings)
• Drug interactions causing Angina (13 listings)
• Underlying causes of Angina
• Angina as a complication caused by other conditions
• Angina as a symptom
• Medical news summaries relating to Causes of Angina

Treatments for Angina

• Treating angina and heart attack risk factors
  • Control high blood pressure
  • Quit smoking
  • Control cholesterol levels
  • Control weight
• more treatments...»

See full list of 24 treatments for Angina

Latest Treatments for Angina

• Oxygen
• Coronary artery bypass graft
• Stent
• Drug eluting stent
• Angioplasty
• more treatments...»

See full list of 6 latest treatments for Angina

News Archives for Angina

Medical news articles related to Angina include:

• Stem Cell Injections Seem to Reduce Angina Pain
• Angina Strikes 1 in 5 Heart Attack Survivors
• Angina More Common in Women Than Men
• Doctors Debate Drugs vs. Surgery for Angina
• Trial to Test Gene Therapy for Angina in Women
• more health news...»

Source: HealthDay News

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Prognosis for Angina

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Reseach about Angina

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Statistics for Angina

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• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Angina
• Death and Mortality statistics for Angina
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Angina: Broader Related Topics

• Cardiovascular Disease
• Heart conditions
• more types...»

Types of Angina

Types of Angina

• Stable angina - a regular pattern of angina; the most common type.
• Unstable angina - a new, irregular or changed pattern of angina. Needs urgent medical attention for possible heart attack or heart disease.
• Prinzmetal's angina (variant angina) - caused by vasospasm.
• Microvascular angina - caused by small blood vessels rather than artery damage.
• more types...»

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Article Excerpts about Angina

Keep your heart and blood vessels healthy: NIDDK (Excerpt)

Chest pain, also called angina (an-JY-nuh). When you have angina, you feel pain in your chest, arms, shoulders, or back. You may feel the pain more when your heart works faster, such as when you exercise. The pain may go away when you rest. You also may feel very weak and sweaty. If you do not get it treated, chest pain may happen more often. If diabetes has damaged the heart nerves, you may not feel the chest pain. (Source: excerpt from Keep your heart and blood vessels healthy: NIDDK)

NHLBI, ANGINA: NHLBI (Excerpt)

A recurring pain or discomfort in the chest that happens when some part of the heart does not receive enough blood. It is a common symptom of coronary heart disease (CHD), which occurs when vessels that carry blood to the heart become narrowed and blocked due to atherosclerosis (Source: excerpt from NHLBI, ANGINA: NHLBI)

Angina: NWHIC (Excerpt)

Angina, or angina pectoris, refers to symptoms such as chest pain or discomfort caused by reduced blood flow to the heart. Angina is often the first sign of heart disease. (Source: excerpt from Angina: NWHIC)

Definitions of Angina:

Any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain - (Source - WordNet 2.1)