Background A 10-year-old boy presented with a history of severe angina on exertion. A two-dimensional echocardiogram showed mild asymmetric left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy localized to the ...

Medical treatment was as effective as surgery for patients with moderate to severe isolated stenosis in the proximal left anterior descending artery who had fractional flow reserve (FFR) of 0.80 or ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MDMedically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD A widowmaker heart attack is a type of heart failure in which the heart's biggest artery, the left anterior ...

Ray Romano said that he had "90 percent blockage" in an artery and had a stent put in. Romano said it was in the artery that leads to "widowmaker" heart attacks, seemingly referring to the LAD. Romano ...

Active breath control significantly reduced radiation dose to the heart and a major artery during treatment for left-sided breast cancer, new data show.

For patients with isolated left main (LM) coronary artery disease, pressure-based physiological testing—whether by fractional flow reserve (FFR) or instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR)—reveals ...

The 3D CT data set can be evaluated by various post-processing techniques. Multiplanar reconstructions allow visualization of any cross-section through the volume. Oblique as well as curved ...

A 34-year-old woman presented to the hospital after calling the emergency medical service (EMS) due to prolonged constrictive pain in her chest, which had come on suddenly at home. Records showed that ...

Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 α Expression Predicts Superior Survival in Patients With Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Treated With R-CHOP Patients with HL who have been in remission for at least 2 years ...