Anyone who has learned to read ECGs has heard it before: "You can't diagnose acute myocardial infarction (AMI) on an ECG in the presence of a pacemaker." We have actually heard the same dictum ...

Everolimus-eluting stents (EES) are noninferior to sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) for preventing late luminal loss in chronic coronary occlusions, according to the results of a randomized trial ...

The coronary collateral circulation protects the heart from myocardial ischaemia, and is associated with improved survival in patients with coronary artery disease Collateral vessels are present at ...

Delayed coronary obstruction is a rare complication following TAVR, but given its association with increased in-hospital mortality, experts are advising better prediction and prevention measures be ...

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, primarily resulting from an abrupt coronary artery occlusion that deprives myocardial tissue of oxygen.

PARIS -- For coronary procedures, conventional radial access held up against a newer technique developed to reduce radial artery occlusion (RAO), according to the DISCO RADIAL investigators. They ...

A professor of cardiology at Mount Sinai, Dr. Annapoorna Kini specializes in reopening blocked arteries of the heart. Each year, she performs more than 1,000 minimally invasive coronary interventions.

Many interventional cardiologists would not attempt to revascularize a coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) but would not hesitate to treat the same vessel if it were an 80% lesion. Why? Dr Di Mario ...

HEART disease and heart failure in aging persons are usually assumed to be due to coronary arteriosclerosis (arteriosclerotic heart disease, ischemic heart disease) if other identifiable causes of ...