Clinical studies have demonstrated that patients with an open infarct-related artery (IRA) after AMI have higher survival rates during years of follow-up than do those with persistent occlusion of ...

Lower extremity peripheral artery disease is a condition that develops when the arteries in the legs and feet become narrowed, or occluded, by an accumulation of a fatty substance called plaque, which ...

This is a benign anomaly and does not result in myocardial ischemia. When occluded, the circumflex coronary artery can cause a lateral myocardial infarction resulting in ST elevation in the ...

The clinical syndrome produced by a stroke is determined by the artery or arteries that are occluded. Blood is supplied to the brain by two major sets of arteries, the anterior and posterior ...

The below ECG tracing is from a patient with an acutely occluded left main coronary artery. This ECG shows dramatic ST depression that is downsloping consistent with ischemia. The changes are ...