Chronic total occlusion (CTO) of the right coronary artery, found in nearly a quarter of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for unprotected left main disease, significantly ...

The right coronary artery supplies blood to a part of the heart. To do this effectively, it branches off into smaller arteries, such as the conus artery and the sinoatrial nodal branch. Each branch ...

The 3D CT data set can be evaluated by various post-processing techniques. Multiplanar reconstructions allow visualization of any cross-section through the volume. Oblique as well as curved ...

ALTHOUGH endocardial fibroelastosis is well recognized as an infrequent but distinctive type of congenital heart disease in infants, a similar lesion is rare in adults. When it is found in an ...

Integrating the reverse Aslanger pattern with Littmann’s continuity, the patient was diagnosed with a high lateral, high-risk, occlusive myocardial infarction. The patient immediately received dual ...

What determines the dominance of the coronary arteries (left versus right dominance)? Coronary dominance refers the which vessel the posterior descending coronary artery arises from. In approximately ...

Premenopausal women presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are a unique and often underrecognized patient population. Although they are traditionally considered at lower cardiovascular risk ...