NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—STEMI patients with good coronary collateral circulation undergoing PCI are more likely to be alive at 2 years and have better cardiac function when compared with STEMI patients ...
The coronary collateral circulation is present in all individuals, whether or not obstructive coronary artery disease is present. 1 In the majority of individuals, this extensive collateral network is ...
The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer-reviewed. In the first study to describe the magnitude of coronary microvascular collateral ...
In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), a high level of coronary collateralization reduces the risk of death by more than one-third compared with patients with no or only faintly visible ...
The human heart beats more than 100,000 times every day, pumping almost 2,000 gallons of oxygen-rich blood through the aorta to the rest of the body. About 5 percent of that flow finds its way to two ...