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A prominent Palestinian cardiologist, Marwan Sultan, was reportedly killed during an Israeli airstrike on Gaza last week. ( NBC News) Cardiologist Douglas Chamberlain, MB BChir, was commemorated for ...
All 164 features were used in this stage. To localize ischemia, we classified IHD group according to stenosis locations, including left anterior descending (LAD), left circumflex artery (LCX), and ...
The patient's left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery QFR was 0.94, and the microvascular resistance index (IMR) was 46.3, much higher than the diagnostic threshold of IMR > 25 (14, 15), with ...
Further care should be taken to avoid the inclusion of adjacent epicardial fat and tissue, as well as the neighboring left circumflex artery. Upon clip closure, excess traction can result in kinking ...
PCI was performed after compression of the left circumflex artery in 9% of cases, “but it was also no problem,” he said. There was a learning curve for operators, with intervention time, radiation ...
One of the most common causes of a heart attack is coronary artery narrowing and blockage by the accumulation of plaque.
The left main coronary artery originating from the right sinus of Valsalva is a rare congenital anomaly. A 62-year-old male came in with recurring exertional chest discomfort, as observed by the ...
Coronary artery fistula draining into the left ventricle (CAF-LV) is a rare congenital heart disease, which increases the risk of myocardial ischemia, endocarditis, rupture of coronary artery aneurysm ...
Physiologically significant residual ischemia was defined by post-PCI μQFR values ≤0.80 in the left anterior descending (LAD) or left circumflex artery (LCX). The primary outcome was 3-year ...
The second most common was the abnormal origin of the left circumflex artery (LCX) from the right coronary sinus with a retro-aortic course (benign course); six cases (0.6%) were reported, followed by ...
INTRODUCTION The most common coronary artery anomaly is ectopic origin of the left circumflex artery. 1 It can originate from the proximal part of the right coronary artery or from a separate ostium ...