Elevations in cardiac troponin (cTn) after long bouts of aerobic exercise are not associated with subclinical coronary artery ...

Results of an autopsy-based study revealed that sudden cardiac death and multiorgan pathology may be more closely linked to SSc than previously thought.

My heart was breaking, but not from lost love. It was failing in the most literal sense.

Unlike conventional single-energy CT, spectral CT captures every X-ray photon’s energy level, then reconstructs separate ...

There are plenty of health conditions and medical events that loom big and scary in our minds, and two of the most frightening are heart attack and sudden cardiac arrest. But knowing what each of ...

Background The concept of non-atherosclerotic coronary artery pathology in sudden cardiac death (SCD) has not been given the attention it deserves. Objective To determine the incidence of ...

spontaneous coronary artery dissection. Illustration credit: Julia Huang and Ben Smith. Invasive coronary imaging and pathology data demonstrate women to exhibit a higher prevalence of plaque erosion, ...

The intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) signals were acquired from coronary arteries dissected from 32 diseased cadaver ... classified using a K- means clustering algorithm to generate IVUS-histology ...

Physiological blood flow is predominantly laminar and regular, and notably during systole (except in the left ventricular coronary artery). Laminar flow preserves ... regardless of the severity or ...

New findings from an analysis of the ADVANCE registry support the use of CT angiography as a more central part of the ...

Male athletes who exercised more than 3,000 metabolic equivalents of task-minutes per week had a higher likelihood of experiencing subclinical coronary atherosclerosis, according to a study published ...