More women are prone to spontaneous coronary artery dissection or SCAD—a life-threatening heart condition that occurs when ...

The right coronary artery arises from the right coronary cusp and is the dominant coronary vessel in 80% of individuals (dominance refers to the coronary vessel that supplies the posterior ...

A 41-year-old man was evaluated for swelling in the ankles and syncope. CT of the chest showed bilateral mediastinal and ...

The heart muscle needs oxygen-rich blood to do its job. The vessels that feed the heart are called coronary arteries (shown in the diagram right) and they branch off from the body’s main artery, the ...

circumflex or right coronary artery). Multiple tandem stenosis may occasionally cause angina, even if the individual obstructions are not flow-limiting. Angiographic estimation of the severity of ...

The left coronary artery continues at the anterior side of the heart between the right and left ventricle. Several diagonal branches cross the left ventricular anterior wall (Figure 2).

Coronary artery disease, CAD, is a condition where the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle become clogged and narrow, making it difficult for blood and oxygen to reach the muscles of ...

This procedure can be used to treat calcified coronary arteries during percutaneous coronary intervention. This is because it works well and there are no serious concerns about its safety in this ...

Existing options for managing heavily calcified coronary arteries during PCI such as balloon angioplasty may not be effective in fracturing severe calcifications. By using sonic waves to fracture ...