Angina

Angina is a specific type of pain in the chest caused by inadequate blood flow through the blood vessels (coronary vessels) of the heart muscle (myocardium).
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.













