Coronary artery spasm

Coronary artery spasm is a temporary constriction of an artery in the heart. The spasm can slow or stop blood flow through the artery. The main symptom experienced is chest pain.
Review Date: 04/28/2009
Reviewed By: Larry A. Weinrauch, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School, and Private practice specializing in Cardiovascular
Disease, Watertown, MA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare
Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director,
A.D.A.M., Inc.













