A chest pain might not always indicate a heart attack or cardiac pain. It might be signs of an underlying infection/inflammation of the lungs spine or food pipe. Moreover structural infection or inflammation of the heart tissues could also lead to severe chest pain. Dr Tilak Suvarna Senior Interventional Cardiologist Head Department of Cardiology Asian Heart Institute Mumbai explains about common health conditions that can cause a chest pain which is not a cardiac pain. 1. Inflammation or infection of the heart: Unlike a heart attack where you experience a throbbing pain in the left side of the chest that