Doctors might be able to use a new scoring system to avoid unnecessary surgery to prevent strokes, a new study shows.

A small study found that fatty buildup in the blood vessels of the neck (carotid arteries) may contain 50 times or more micronanoplastics -- minuscule bits of plastic -- compared to arteries free of ...

The study shows that, compared with lean animals, obesity significantly impacts echocardiographic findings, infarct size, circulating biomarkers, mitochondrial respiratory capacity and mortality ...

A case study on intravascular lithotripsy for the treatment of calcified carotid disease to demonstrate technical feasibility ...

A 65-y-old woman with multiple cardiovascular risk factors presented with atypical chest pain, prompting a 1-d pharmacologic stress myocardial perfusion test using 99mTc sestamibi. Initial ...

A specific gut microbiota pattern was found to predict new cardiovascular events in patients with coronary heart disease, ...

BACKGROUND: High-volume physical activity (PA) is associated with a higher prevalence of subclinical coronary artery disease ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. Although effective preventive treatments ...

The trial seeks to enrol up to 158 subjects with moderate-to-severely calcified, stenotic de novo coronary artery lesions. Credit: Pixel-Shot / Shutterstock. Johnson & Johnson (J&J) MedTech’s ...

Johnson & Johnson said Monday it has enrolled the first patient in a pivotal study of a device for clearing “difficult-to-cross” coronary arteries ... that must cross the blocked part of the artery to ...

However, cardiac ischemia may also result from other conditions such as: Coronary artery spasms Coronary microvascular disease Congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries Coronary artery dissection ...

Quitting smoking is also critical, as smoking greatly increases the risk of aortic conditions like aneurysms. The aorta is the largest artery in the body to which all other major arteries are ...