Kawasaki disease (KD), an acute self-limited febrile illness that primarily affects children <5 years old, is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in developed countries, with the potential of ...

The NOTION-3 study investigated if routine revascularization with PCI and transcatheter aortic valve replacement improves ...

Importantly, 11 of these loci are specific to AS and show no association with coronary artery disease (CAD), highlighting the ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Coronary artery disease (CAD) occurs when the arteries (heart's blood vessels) ...

Cardiac CT angiograms take detailed images of the heart and can show dangerous blockages in a person's arteries.

I recently had a CAT scan of my chest as an evaluation for pneumonia. I didn’t have pneumonia, but I got an unexpected high calcium score in my coronary arteries. Does the calcium I eat affect this? I ...

Routine use of an orbital atherectomy device to remove calcium from severely blocked coronary arteries before patients ...

Calcified coronary arteries remain a high-risk subset of PCI regardless of treatment approach. Orbital atherectomy remains an effective adjunctive treatment option to allow for procedure success; ...

A 2016 study by the Journal of the American Heart Association involving over 5,000 adults found that those who got the most calcium from food had a lower risk of heart problems. This helps control ...

Heart blockages, or coronary artery disease, occur when the arteries supplying blood to the heart narrow due to fatty deposits, cholesterol, and other substances forming plaques. These blockages ...

invasive coronary angiography‐derived computation of fractional flow reserve (FFR), has not been studied in coronary artery bypass grafts. We sought to explore the correlation and diagnostic agreement ...

There's a lot to love about the OM System M.Zuiko 150-600mm f/5.0-6.3 IS. For starters, it's effectively a 300-1200mm sniper rifle (becoming 600-2400mm, with a 2x teleconverter) with up to 7 stops of ...