The major thrust of current diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for coronary artery disease has overwhelmingly focused on late-stage atherosclerosis—ie, obstructive coronary artery disease—and its ...

For decades, the clinical approach to coronary artery disease has been centred on the acute effects of coronary occlusion and its culmination in myocardial ischaemia—a focus that has shaped both ...

In the recent editorial on middle meningeal artery embolization for chronic subdural hematoma,1 Levitt et al assert that the three recently published randomized trials of middle meningeal artery ...

The trial seeks to enrol up to 158 subjects with moderate-to-severely calcified, stenotic de novo coronary artery lesions. Credit: Pixel-Shot / Shutterstock. Johnson & Johnson (J&J) MedTech’s ...

J&J’s new pivotal study in coronary artery disease, dubbed FORWARD CAD, will test a cardiac-focused version of the Javelin as a first-line treatment for narrowed, calcified vessels to make way ...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is an increasingly recognized cause of acute coronary syndrome or sudden cardiac death, primarily affecting relatively young women (median age, 51 years) ...

The presence of degenerated hematoma in the carotid artery (CA) indicates that the occlusion can be uneven and recanalized, and the remodeling of intramural hematoma substances can sometimes take up ...

THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Strokes caused by an artery tear are landing five times as many Americans in the hospital these days, a new study says. Cervical artery dissection ...

A new Lancet Commission proposes reframing coronary artery disease as a lifelong condition, prioritising early detection, prevention and treatment. Traditionally, coronary artery disease has been ...

However, a new approach to determining risk and selecting a statin is the use of the coronary artery calcium (CAC) score, which is determined by taking a low-radiation dose image of the heart ...