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By Mayo Clinic staffThe chest pain that can occur with angina can make doing some normal, daily activities, such as walking, uncomfortable. However, the most dangerous complication to be concerned about with angina is a heart attack.
Common symptoms of a heart attack include:
- Pressure, fullness or a squeezing pain in the center of your chest that lasts for more than a few minutes
- Pain extending beyond your chest to your shoulder, arm, back, or even to your teeth and jaw
- Increasing episodes of chest pain
- Prolonged pain in the upper abdomen
- Shortness of breath
- Sweating
- Impending sense of doom
- Fainting
- Nausea and vomiting
If you have any of these symptoms, seek emergency medical attention immediately.
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- Angina pectoris. American Heart Association. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4472. Accessed May 21, 2009.
- Barbara Woodward Lips Patient Education Center. Steps to heart health: Angina and heart attack. Rochester, Minn.: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research; 2006.
- ACC/AHA management of patients with unstable angina/non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction - Pocket guideline. American College of Cardiology and the American heart Association. http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1194979355638UA-NSTEMI.Text.Final.pdf. Accessed May 21, 2009.
- Patient information sheet: Ranolazine. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://www.fda.gov/Cder/drug/InfoSheets/patient/ranolazine.pdf. Accessed May 21, 2009.
- L-arginine. Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database. http://www.naturaldatabase.com. Accessed May 21, 2009.
- Ruel M, et al. Concomitant treatment with oral L-arginine improves the efficacy of surgical angiogenesis in patients with severe diffuse coronary artery disease: The Endothelial Modulation in Angiogenic Therapy randomized controlled trial. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2008;135:762.
- L-carnitine. Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database. http://www.naturaldatabase.com. Accessed May 21, 2009.
- Ferrari R, et al. Therapeutic effects of l-carnitine and propionyl-l-carnitine on cardiovascular diseases: A review. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2004;1033:79.
