Contemporary hard clinical outcomes are comparable after CABG and PCI for patients with isolated proximal LAD disease, according to a retrospective study published in the December 30, 2014, issue of ...

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 ...

June 16, 2009 (Leipzig, Germany) — A small randomized study comparing minimally invasive coronary artery bypass surgery (MIDCAB) with PCI using sirolimus-eluting stents suggests that both approaches ...

In proximal lesions of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with bare-metal stents (BMS) yields equivalent outcomes compared with minimally invasive ...

Note: ECG = electrocardiography, LAD = left anterior descending artery, STEMI = ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. These cases raise several questions: Are these true syndromes or simply ECG ...

A 34-year-old woman presented to the hospital after calling the emergency medical service (EMS) due to prolonged constrictive pain in her chest, which had come on suddenly at home. Records showed that ...

A 46-year-old asymptomatic man is referred by his primary care physician for a coronary artery calcium scoring examination and a coronary artery CT angiogram (CTA). The patient has a long history of ...

Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window Share on Bluesky. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window A 64-year-old ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MDMedically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD A widowmaker heart attack is a type of heart failure in which the heart's biggest artery, the left anterior ...

A53-year-old male presented with chest pain at a pre-hospital care provider, and an ECG showed an anterior MI. The patient received 60-mg oral prasugrel (Effient, Eli Lilly/Daiichi Sankyo; Efient, ...