The left main coronary artery arises from the left coronary cusp and bifurcates into the left anterior descending (LAD) and the left circumflex coronary arteries. Since the left main supplies a ...

Researchers at North Karelia Central Hospital-Heart Center, Finland, conducted a retrospective single-center registry study that focused on the use of drug-coated balloon (DCB)-only strategy for ...

The following is a summary of “Visual coronary artery calcification score to predict significant coronary artery stenosis in ...

that artery comes from the right main coronary artery, but for about 10%, it comes from the left. In another 10%, there are two of these arteries of roughly equal size that branch off the right ...

Despite some evidence on individual eating habits in relation to cardiovascular disease, little is known about the combination of common eating habits in relation to premature coronary artery disease ...

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

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 ...

Blood clots can form both in the heart's chamber (intracardiac thrombosis) and the coronary arteries ... off the upper left chamber of the heart, or the left ventricle, the main pumping chamber ...

To be eligible for the study, patients had to have narrowing of at least 50% in three major arteries, but no significant narrowing in the left main coronary artery. Most patients had at least one ...