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 ...

A recent study concluded that coronary collateralization is associated with ischemic burden and may reduce the intensity of ...

The coronary collateral circulation is present in all individuals, whether or not obstructive coronary artery disease is present. 1 In the majority of individuals, this extensive collateral network is ...

June 22, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — Patients with good coronary collateral circulation are at increased risk of restenosis following PCI, a new meta-analysis has found [1]. If patients are found ...

In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), a high level of coronary collateralization reduces the risk of death by more than one-third compared with patients with no or only faintly visible ...

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer-reviewed. In the first study to describe the magnitude of coronary microvascular collateral ...

Having good coronary collateral circulation, a network of microscopic blood vessels that form a type of detour around blockages in the heart, is normally considered an advantage in patients with heart ...

To investigate the relationship between the collateral circulation and contrast-enhanced MR signal change for myocardial infarction (MI) in pigs. Pigs underwent permanent ligation of two diagonal ...

The human heart beats more than 100,000 times every day, pumping almost 2,000 gallons of oxygen-rich blood through the aorta to the rest of the body. About 5 percent of that flow finds its way to two ...

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 ...