A Yale School of Medicine team finds that women who underwent a common procedure called coronary angiography (CA) were more ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Coronary artery disease (CAD) occurs when there's a blockage in the arteries that ...

As the degree of coronary artery disease progresses ... When the myocardium becomes ischemic, it does not function optimally. When large areas of the myocardium becomes ischemic, there can ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD ... causing your heart to work with less oxygen than it needs to function properly and leading to a squeezing feeling in your chest. There are different types of ...

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores have become a non-invasive way for physicians to easily determine how much plaque has built up inside a patient's coronary arteries, but the question has been how ...

The results demonstrate that impaired coronary microvascular function is directly associated with the presence of cardiometabolic indicators such as metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, and ...

When heart function deteriorates over years ... The most common cause of congestive failure is coronary artery disease—narrowing of the arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle.

St. Luke’s University Health Network’s interventional cardiology team recently debuted the Abbott PressureWire X, the tiniest device ever made for measuring the health and function of the ...

The changes in cardiovascular physiology must be differentiated from the effects of pathology, such as coronary artery disease ... of cardiovascular function in the elderly and changes in physical ...

A recent prospective study carried out in Korea and the US investigated the location of plaque ruptures in native coronary arteries with the use of three-vessel intravascular ultrasound (IVUS).

Severe coronary artery calcification in patients with CKD increases the risk for heart failure, heart valve calcification, and progression to kidney failure.

Jatin Shah, a 41-year-old executive from Mumbai, had been diagnosed with diabetes a decade ago. But he didn’t bother to take ...