Pages tagged: coronary arteries

Coronary angiography (cath) and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) provide different information. As a pre-operative evaluation, it is often very...

It will likely be some time before this stent for coronary arteries is commercially available to the public. It currently...

Coronary anomalies are many different entities and all may have different clinical manifestations. A case of anomalous origin of the...

Tina, Valve sclerosis has been shown to correlate with the presence of coronary artery disease and an overall higher risk...

The “widowmaker” is an expression describing the complete closure of the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery. The LAD is...

You are correct. A vulnerable plaque is one prone to rupture because it is inflamed and the rupture of the...

Your heart is made of muscle, called the myocardium. The heart muscle, like every other organ or tissue in your...

Coronary Circulation The heart muscle, like every other organ or tissue in your body, needs oxygen-rich blood to survive. Blood...