NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—STEMI patients with good coronary collateral circulation undergoing PCI are more likely to be alive at 2 years and have better cardiac function when compared with STEMI patients ...

A little tightness in the chest while climbing stairs. Breathlessness during a routine walk. A feeling of pressure that ...

The coronary circulation consists of the blood vessels that supply blood to, and remove blood from, the heart. The vessels that supply blood high in oxygen to the heart are known as coronary arteries.

The 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on the management of chronic coronary syndromes (CCS) include a focus on both larger and smaller blood vessels of the heart; new models to ...

Complex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with severely impaired left ventricular function carries a high risk of death and complications. Whether percutaneous left ventricular ...

A new ten-year study of nearly 400 angiographically confirmed coronary artery disease patients shows that the profibrotic protein HE4 independently predicts long-term mortality and major adverse ...

A 70-year-old woman with an acute myocardial infarction presented with ventricular fibrillation and SCAD of an obtuse marginal branch of the left circumflex artery (Panel A, bracket). Computed ...

The recently published 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines on the management of chronic coronary syndromes (CCS) highlighted the role of investigating the presence and diagnosis of ...

Heart disease has long been framed through a single, dramatic lens: a sudden block in a major artery causing crushing chest ...