Diffuse coronary artery disease is a subtype of coronary artery disease (CAD) in which larger sections of coronary arteries have a high plaque buildup. It is less common than focal CAD and can be more ...
Coronary collateral circulation (CCC) construction could be a practical therapeutic strategy for patients following myocardial infarction (MI), yet effective therapeutic drugs remain scarce. In this ...
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 ...
Heart failure (HF) is not confined to contractile failure of cardiomyocytes or myocardial fibrosis. Coronary and systemic vascular dysfunction contributes to the initiation and progression of HF with ...
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 ...