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 ...

In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), a high level of coronary collateralization reduces the risk of death by more than one-third compared with patients with no or only faintly visible ...

June 22, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — Patients with good coronary collateral circulation are at increased risk of restenosis following PCI, a new meta-analysis has found [1]. If patients are found ...

The coronary collateral circulation is present in all individuals, whether or not obstructive coronary artery disease is present. 1 In the majority of individuals, this extensive collateral network is ...

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer-reviewed. In the first study to describe the magnitude of coronary microvascular collateral ...

The human heart beats more than 100,000 times every day, pumping almost 2,000 gallons of oxygen-rich blood through the aorta to the rest of the body. About 5 percent of that flow finds its way to two ...

Researchers at the NIH and Emory School of Medicine have completed the first minimally invasive coronary artery bypass of the ...

The right coronary artery supplies blood to a part of the heart. To do this effectively, it branches off into smaller arteries, such as the conus artery and the sinoatrial nodal branch. Each branch ...

For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery. In a world first, a team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Emory School of ...

When someone has a heart attack the signs and symptoms can slowly progress as the coronary arteries narrow with atherosclerosis. This is the buildup of plaque in the artery. When a coronary artery ...