Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the number one cause of death in men and women. CAD is caused by atherosclerotic plaques developing in the coronary arteries. Many therapies have been shown to ...

Long contraindicated in patients with severe AS, the vasodilator may improve image quality with careful monitoring.

A heart problem rarely arrives very silently. Chest discomfort, breathlessness, or an abnormal stress test can suddenly bring unfamiliar medical terms into everyday conversations. Among the most ...

Background The reported prevalence and burden of coronary artery disease in young adults varies markedly in published studies ...

A research team led by Prof. Kang Si-hyeok of the cardiology department at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital — with ...

A new expert opinion from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) examines the evolving role of angiography-derived physiology (ADP), a wire-free method for coronary ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stress tests are a thing of the past. Make way for coronary CT angiography. Wide-eyed medical students might ...

A 70-year-old woman with an acute myocardial infarction presented with ventricular fibrillation and SCAD of an obtuse marginal branch of the left circumflex artery (Panel A, bracket). Computed ...

More than 1 million invasive diagnostic coronary angiography procedures are performed annually in the United States, and at present, x-ray coronary angiography is the only accepted method for the ...