National Wear Red Day raises awareness about the number 1 killer of women, cardiovascular disease. One mom shares her story ...

Existing options for managing heavily calcified coronary arteries during PCI such ... to allow blood supply to return to the heart. The cycle can be repeated until the lesion has expanded enough to ...

The main blood vessels that supply blood to the heart (coronary arteries ... the skin (percutaneous), then inflated inside the narrowed coronary artery to widen it. A short wire mesh tube (stent) is ...

Last week, we kicked off American Heart Month with some guidance for monitoring your risk factors for heart disease and making lifestyle decisions that reduce those factors.

"Later that day, I had a phone call to say that I had had a heart attack and that they were expecting me in A&E. I spent five ...

This can be done with angioplasty (possibly including stent placement) or with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), also called open-heart surgery. An angioplasty involves threading a wire to ...

Content by Health System. Each February, American Heart Month campaigns and events help highlight the importance of promoting heart health and preventing and treating the United States’ leading cause ...

A Bassett Healthcare Network physician is telling the story of his own health scare. According to a Bassett news release, a ...

The genomic drivers of coronary artery disease (CAD ... revascularization, and in-stent restenosis; clinical outcomes were incident heart failure and all-cause mortality.

Since 1999, both stent use and left internal mammary-artery ... American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Update the 1999 Guidelines for Coronary Artery Bypass ...