Using the right femoral artery, clinicians implanted an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), and were able to place a workhorse wire in the distal lumen of the LAD, thus restoring blood flow into the ...

The presence of significant stenoses (asterisk) in the proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD) and intermediate branch (IM) could be confirmed by conventional angiography.

The proximal and middle segments of the right coronary artery are most commonly affected (about 68% of cases), followed by the proximal LAD (60%) and left circumflex (50%).

Aug. 22, 2002 — Minimally invasive bypass surgery was better than stenting for a high-grade proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery stenosis, according to the results of a ...

Coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) is very commonly performed. CABG improves survival among patients with multivessel coronary disease; those with more severe coronary disease, diabetes, or lef ...

The left anterior descending artery is usually the largest coronary artery, feeding over half of the heart with blood. The LAD runs on the left side of the heart before traveling down its front ...

They used an inflatable pneumatic cuff occluder positioned around the artery to create 30%, 50% and 70% narrowing of the proximal LAD artery. Power-Doppler volumes overlaid on anatomical B-mode ...

New 7-year data demonstrate similar long-term safety and effectiveness after PCI with sirolimus-eluting stents or minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery in patients with isolated ...

Fractional flow reserve (FFR) can accurately identify those patients with equivocal lesions in the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery who may not need revascularization and will see ...

Cardiac MRI demonstrated that the proximal two-thirds of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery had an intramural course, and confirmed the presence of mild, LV septal hypertrophy, with normal ...

Intravascular ultrasonography of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery showed that the neck of the aneurysm was 10 mm in length. The lesions in the circumflex artery and the ...