Left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease can lead to what's known as a "widowmaker" heart attack, so-called because of the ...

More than a quarter of people with a deadly form of heart disease may be missed following current tests, according to ...

Minimally invasive bypass surgery and coronary-artery stenting are both accepted treatments ... one patient had an acute myocardial infarction due to a new lesion of the left circumflex artery, ...

The development of coronary-artery stenting has led to a reevaluation of the role of PCI for left main coronary artery disease, and several studies have reported on the midterm safety and ...

Fewer than half of patients carry stent cards, and of those who don’t, just 3% could supply pertinent information about their ... to know the details of their procedure. “It would be very unusual for ...

Figure 1. Left coronary artery angiograms. (A) After (anteroposterior, caudal projection) percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stent implantation into the ostial and mid left ...

Application of a Drug-Eluting Stent Combined with a Drug-Coated Balloon in Left Main Coronary Artery Disease In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications; DOI https://doi ...

Stent thrombosis may be another hallmark presentation of COVID-19, ... Following primary PCI in a 49-year-old man, acute stent thrombosis in the circumflex artery was confirmed by repeat angiography ...

More tests showed that her left circumflex artery "had a 99% blockage." ... where a thin tube is used to clear the blocked artery and a stent is placed to prevent another blockage.