When a chest pain manifests as severe, crushing or pressure that lasts more than a few minutes, or if the pain moves to the neck, left shoulder, arm or jaw, go immediately to a hospital in the department of emergency, do not drive you or call 911 for an emergency transportation.

The chest pain is one of the most formidable symptoms that a person can have, it is sometimes difficult even for a medical or other health care provider know what is causing that pain and if it is a threat to life, by which it must take into account:

-Any part of the breast may be the cause of pain, including the heart, lung, esophagus, muscle, bone and skin.

-Because of the complex distribution of the nerves in the body, chest pain may come from another part of the body.

-The stomach or other organs in the belly (abdomen), for example, can cause chest pain.

Two situations potentially fatal are as follows:

A heart attack, which occurs when blood flow to the arteries that pumped the heart (coronary arteries) is blocked. With the decreased blood flow, the heart muscle does not get enough oxygen and this can cause damage, deterioration and death of heart muscle.

The angina: angina is chest pain related to an imbalance between the oxygen demand of the heart and the amount of oxygen supplied through the blood. It is caused by the obstruction or narrowing of blood vessels that supply blood to the heart. The angina is different from a heart attack, because the arteries are not completely blocked and that cause little or no permanent damage to the heart. There are two types; “stable” when the angina repetitive and predictable in the exercise and disappears with the rest. “Unstable” is the angina of results unusual and unpredictable and pain not relieved with the rest.