Over 80% of these fatalities result from heart attacks and strokes. December is notorious for being the biggest month for heart attacks, with one of the most dangerous being the widowmaker heart ...

Purpose We examined whether end-to-end deep-learning models could detect moderate (≥50%) or severe (≥70%) stenosis in the left anterior descending artery (LAD), right coronary artery (RCA) or left ...

Mumbai: Running has been 53-year-old real estate consultant Amit Sonkar's favourite sport for the past eight years. He managed many ultra runs and four half marathons in this period and signed up ...

People in their 50s with severely narrowed leg arteries ... tubes called stents that hold the arteries open. Another is bypass surgery, which creates a new path around a blocked artery using ...

Sonkar, however, also underwent a CT-angiography that showed 80% calcium buildup in the left anterior descending (LAD) artery. This "hidden" blockage prompted Sonkar to undergo a single-stent ...

Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is an alternative treatment for patients with carotid artery stenosis who are not eligible for carotid endarterectomy. Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after CAS aims to ...

Collateral circulation involves specialized blood vessels that bypass the area where blood flow is blocked. This occurs as the body’s way of protecting against injury from coronary artery disease, ...

Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is a well‐established treatment for patients with carotid artery stenosis and tandem vessel occlusion. Over the years, advancements in stent design have led to the ...

However, as research deepens, the accuracy and specificity of diagnosing proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) culprit lesions separately by de Winter syndrome or Wellens syndrome ...

The roadblock caused significant inconvenience to commuters on the Khanna-Jammu and Ropar-Ludhiana routes; many vehicles were stuck in traffic for hours, leading to frustration among the public ...

Traditionally, physicians have only had procedures like balloon angioplasty, stenting or atherectomy – where a high-speed drill is used to grind away plaque within the artery – to treat CAC.