During stroke or heart attack, tissue damage can be limited because “collateral” vessels connect the tissue to other arteries. Collateral vessels can vary greatly in size and number from one person to ...

A collaboration between basic and clinical scientists has revealed a protein that promotes the growth of small arteries leading into oxygen-starved heart tissues in mice. A collaboration between basic ...

Some patients with blockages in the heart's major arteries can still lead normal lives, basically performing all their everyday activities with no major limitations posed by their disease. But how?

CHAPEL HILL, NC - Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have found a major clue that may explain why some people sustain relatively little damage from strokes or heart ...

In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), a high level of coronary collateralization reduces the risk of death by more than one-third compared with patients with no or only faintly visible ...

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 ...

THE occurrence of a continuous bruit over a partially obstructed artery is not a new clinical observation. The theoretical concept of the production of such a murmur has been well expressed by Myers ...

The human heart beats more than 100,000 times every day, pumping almost 2,000 gallons of oxygen-rich blood through the aorta to the rest of the body. About 5 percent of that flow finds its way to two ...

A 60 year-old man presented with spells of left sided weakness, often provoked by standing up quickly. His neurological exam was completely normal. Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion: Cerebral ...

A collaboration between basic and clinical scientists at Stanford University has revealed a protein that promotes the growth of small arteries leading into oxygen-starved heart tissues in mice. Kristy ...