By contrast, the Maasai of Africa have almost no heart disease. As the degree of coronary artery disease progresses, there may be near-complete obstruction of the lumen of the coronary artery ...

Background: Coronary atherosclerotic heart disease (coronary heart disease; CHD) is the leading cause of death in women worldwide, and the number of patients and deaths is increasing each year.

1 British Heart Foundation Glasgow ... of focal or diffuse epicardial disease (macrovascular), microvascular dysfunction or both. Macrovascular disease may be due to the presence of obstructive CAD ...

Heart disease is a term used to describe a constellation of conditions that can affect the heart and/or its valves, vessels, structure, electrical system, or coronary arteries. Though each disease ...

Coronary artery bypass surgery is a procedure to treat coronary heart disease. There are various types, including multiple bypass and minimally invasive. The medical name for coronary artery or ...

The most common heart disease is coronary artery disease, which impairs the blood vessels, hinders blood flow to the heart and can increase your risk of a heart attack. Heart disease frequently ...

We retrospectively screened adult patients (>18 years old) who underwent IVUS-guided drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation in de novo lesions in native coronary arteries at the Department of ...

A new study linked COVID-19 with the rapid growth of plaque in the coronary ... artery walls, increasing the likelihood of heart attack and stroke. People with risk factors for heart disease ...

A new study found severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection was associated with the rapid growth of plaque in the coronary arteries ... for the heart beyond the ...

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This study evaluated a novel algorithm for coronary stenosis quantification (atherosclerosis imaging quantitative CT, AI-QCT). Methods The study included 208 patients with suspected coronary artery ...

However, for patients with more than two clinical risk factors (ischaemic heart disease ... no or only minimal atherosclerosis is detected in the preoperative period. Finally, it remains unknown if ...