Your doctor may advise bypass surgery if: Your left main heart artery is very narrow. All three arteries of the heart are blocked or the amount of blood flowing through them is very low. Your doctor ...

UVA researchers and colleagues found adding an extra tool to a common diagnostic technique can help doctors more accurately ...

Doctors at a Mumbai hospital gave a new lease of life to a Vasaikar recently after conducting a high-risk surgery. A team led ...

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores have become a non-invasive way for physicians to easily determine how much plaque has built up inside a patient's coronary arteries, but the question has been how ...

This classification adds optional suffixes for other high-risk features at the end of the classification symbols (in this classification LM was used for left main and CA for calcium). However ...

A new technique that combines blood-flow measurements in a patient’s heart with an MRI can improve a doctor’s ability to ...

Blood vessels leading into and out of the heart There are four main blood vessels ... The aorta is the largest artery in the body. It carries oxygenated blood away from the left ventricle to ...