A Mumbai hospital has successfully performed a rare and intricate heart surgery on an 18-month-old child diagnosed with a ...

Only one graft was implanted per animal to connect the descending aorta to the LAD to bypass the proximal LAD, as previously described (Shofti et al., 2004). All animals were given aspirin and ...

Objective We sought to investigate whether long-term clinical outcomes differ following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in patients with three-vessel ...

The Left anterior descending artery (LAD) is a branch of the left main coronary artery which runs obliquely towards the apex of the heart in the anterior interventricular sulcus. Among all of the ...

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Last week, a 72-year-old man stopped to tell me about his heart condition. He said he had a stress test that was positive and ...

Abstract Background —Coronary artery bypass grafting improves survival in patients with >70% luminal diameter narrowing of the 3 major epicardial coronary arteries, particularly if there is ...

He was referred to the catheterisation laboratory for coronary angiography, which revealed the presence of a left main coronary artery coming from the right coronary sinus. In the proximal portion of ...

Distal radial artery access for PCI showed no significant change in hand function and similar rates of access-site bleeding and radial artery occlusion at 1 year vs. proximal access, a speaker ...

Gentle traction was made to light off the atheroplaque with the coronary artery branches, distal and proximal part of the LAD. We assumed that the distal part of the LAD was free from plaque. Then we ...

Inflammation in epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) may contribute to coronary atherosclerosis. Myocardial bridge is a congenital anomaly in which the left anterior descending coronary artery takes a ...