My doctor "thinks" I may have heart blockage & I am scheduled for a stress test using dye in my veins while I am "walking" and when I am not.
Signs of Arterial Blockage in the Heart When suffering from this kind of serious heart condition, patients are expected to show certain types of major and minor signs. Early symptoms of the disease include sharp chest pain, dull feeling and tingling sensation. Also referred to as angina, the p...
Sometimes, other heart and blood vessel conditions besides a blockage cause a heart attack. A condition known as spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) can also trigger one. It happens when a tear happens inside one of the blood vessels that supply your heart. This tear can lead to a...
Sometimes, other heart and blood vessel conditions besides a blockage cause a heart attack. A condition known as spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) can also trigger one. It happens when a tear happens inside one of the blood vessels that supply your heart. This tear can lead to a...
Heart Disease: Causes of a Heart AttackSee Slideshow What procedures and tests diagnose the cause of chest pain? The key to diagnosis is the patient's medical history. Learning about the nature of the pain will give the health care professional direction as to what are reasonable diagnoses to...
Unlike sudden pain from a heart attack, biliary colic pain does not spread to the left arm. Pain may radiate to the right shoulder tip or to the tip of the shoulder blade bone on the back.One thing that differentiates biliary colic from cholecystitis, is that the pain usually resolve over...
When the heart has a blocked blood supply, the person experiences mild heart attack symptoms which can be a risk factor to more serious complications and outcomes that can even lead to death. The severity of the symptoms varies according to the extent of the blood supply blockage to the heart...
Abdominal pain is caused by inflammation of an organ (for example, appendicitis, diverticulitis, colitis), by stretching or distention of an organ (for example, obstruction of the intestine, blockage of a bile duct by gallstones, swelling of the liver with hepatitis), or by loss of the suppl...
A heart attack also is called a myocardial infarction.The usual cause of sudden blockage in a coronary artery is the formation of a blood clot (thrombus). The blood clot typically forms inside a coronary artery that already has been narrowed by atherosclerosis, a condition in which fatty ...
Heart attack.A heart attack is a sudden blockage in an artery that sends blood to the heart muscle. Without blood, part of the heart muscle becomes damaged and doesn't work the way it should. Cardiomyopathy.Damage to the heart muscle prevents it from pumping enough blood. Gene changes, inf...