Left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease can lead to what's known as a "widowmaker" heart attack, so-called because of the ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2012;10(12):1497-1516. A circumflex RAA also causes a vascular ring, by echo showing RAA branching pattern and a thoracic descending aorta in the left side of the ...

Stable coronary artery disease (CAD) is caused by a variable combination of organic coronary stenosis and functional coronary abnormalities, such as coronary artery spasm and coronary microvascular ...

An infant with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery is presented, and the problem of the direction of blood flow in the anomalous vessel is discussed. Determinations ...

Background Reduced cerebrovascular reserve (CVR) is associated with increased risk of ischemic events in carotid steno-occlusive diseases. Objective To determine whether pretreatment CVR can predict ...

OBJECTIVE To study the effects of coronary occlusion and collateral supply on left ventricular (LV) function during beating heart coronary artery surgery. DESIGN Prospective intraoperative study, ...

Left ventricular angiograms of 60 patients with ischaemic heart disease and 10 normal subjects were digitized frame by frame in order to study abnormalities of wall movement during the period of ...

Objective Blood pressure (BP) lowering may increase stroke risk in patients with symptomatic major cerebral artery disease and impaired perfusion. To investigate the relationships among BP, impaired ...

Results In 2019, India noted 535,700 (453,200–631,800) incident ischemic stroke cases, with incidence rates increasing by 118.8% since 1990. Females exhibited a steeper increase (131.1%) compared to ...