Coronary angiography revealed triple-vessel coronary artery disease and a large saccular aneurysm of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (Panel A). There was severe stenosis in ...

In these cases, assessment by MSCT or another 3D imaging technique can accurately depict coronary anatomy and its ... caval vein; LAD=left anterior descending artery Multislice computed ...

Cardiac MRI and coronary angiography showed that the left anterior descending (LAD) artery was 'tunneled' from its origin to the junction of the middle and lower segments, causing systolic ...

The left anterior descending coronary artery (a.k.a. LAD, interventricular artery or the “widow maker”) supplies the anterior, anterolateral, anteroapical and apical segments of the left ...

An anterior myocardial infarction results from occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. This can cause an ST elevation myocardial infarction or a non-ST segment elevation ...

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This heart anatomy diagram shows that blood flows ... artery branches into the circumflex artery and the left anterior descending artery. The circumflex artery supplies blood to the left atrium ...

A total of 220 symptomatic patients with high-grade lesions in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery were randomly assigned to treatment — 110 to surgery and 110 to stenting. The ...

Dr. Thoralf Sundt answers the question: 'Bypass -- Vessels From Legs Or Chest?' — -- Question: How does a surgeon decide whether to use veins from the legs or arteries from the chest to do ...

It can happen suddenly when a key artery that moves blood to the heart gets almost or completely blocked. The left anterior descending (LAD) artery provides blood to a large part of your heart.