Coronary flow reserve (CFR) is a key sign of coronary artery disease, namely how the coronary arteries that feed blood to the heart may adapt to various physiological situations such as exercise, ...

For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery.

Left: 3D power-Doppler volumes overlaid on anatomical volumes of the myocardium in the left-anterior descending artery. Right: Absolute flow velocities estimated by 4D ultrafast ultrasound flow ...

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 ...

In patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the use of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to restore blood flow in an infarct-related coronary artery improves outcomes.

The coronary slow-flow phenomenon, defined as spontaneously delayed flow in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease, can be effectively treated with the channel-channel blocker nicardipine, ...

Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) affects the coronary arteries, which deliver blood to the myocardium. CAD symptoms include stable angina, reviewed here, and acute coronary syndromes (ACS ...

Atherosclerotic lesions in humans typically form over the course of years to decades, one of the longest incubation periods among human diseases. Despite the chronicity of atherosclerosis, thrombotic ...

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