Followed categories will be added to My News. Published in the journal JAMA, it found the Coronary Artery Calcium Score (CACs) worked well for treating those in the precarious “intermediate risk ...

Rarity of congenital absence of right coronary artery: Congenital absence of the right coronary artery (RCA ... The RCA had an abnormal origin from the distal end of a dominant LCx that retrogradely ...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a condition in which one or more of the arteries supplying blood to the body, flowing away from the heart, become blocked or partially blocked. This often reduces ...

The abdominal aorta is a large artery in your belly that carries blood from the heart to the lower part of the body. In early fetal development, it forms from two smaller blood vessels, called the ...

Coronary angiography revealed tight stenosis at the ostial left anterior descending artery with a previous stent deployed from the left main to ... wire could only cross through a side strut of the ...

On dissection, congenital atresia of the right coronary ostium was noted. The orifice of the right coronary artery (RCA) was of a slit-like appearance. It was abnormally located on the lateral surface ...

In the operating room, the abscess was drained, and a left internal mammary artery to distal LAD graft was placed. Antibiotics were started immediately, and the patient was brought to the intensive ...

The evidence supporting the efficacy of exercise therapy for patients with PAD dates back to 1966 when 6 months of unsupervised intermittent walking exercise was demonstrated to improve time walked to ...

There's one artery of your heart that when blocked, can often guarantee a death sentence. That's why this particular artery is referred to as the "widowmaker". "The widowmaker is a narrowing in ...

In fish, blood vessel development resembled that of amphibians, suggesting that the coronary artery-like structures seen in some fish are an ‘ancestral’ form of ASVs, rather than the equivalent of the ...