Despite many years of experience taking care of heart patients, this physician went into denial when he first felt it while ...

Feeling pain under your left breast can be especially ... you have inflammation in the cartilage that joins your ribs to the breastbone (an area is known as the costochondral joint).

But when you have pain under your left breast ... is an inflammation of the cartilage that connects a rib to the breastbone, ...

I was aware of the characteristic triad that makes up the most common presentation of coronary artery disease: exercise-induced chest pain, under the breastbone, relieved promptly by rest.

Non-cardiac chest pain is a recurring pain in your chest, typically behind your breast bone and near your heart, that's not related to your heart. The exact symptoms depend on the cause.

exercise-induced chest pain that is felt under the breastbone and relieved promptly by rest. I also learned about denial in illness — the tendency to disregard ominous symptoms. When challenged ...