When occluded, the circumflex coronary artery can cause a lateral myocardial infarction resulting in ST elevation in the lateral leads. The lateral ECG leads are considered lead V5-V6 and the ...

The problem is, even though one or more coronary arteries that feed the heart muscle are clogged by 80%, and sometimes more, ...

The below ECG tracing is from a patient with an acutely occluded left main coronary artery. This ECG shows dramatic ST depression that is downsloping consistent with ischemia. The changes are ...

ECG plays an important role in detection of ... autonomic dysfunction, coronary artery disease No trials yet; CAST trials showed increased sudden death with few antiarrhythmics QT interval ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) model trained to detect blocked coronary arteries based on electrocardiogram (ECG) readings performed better than expert clinicians and was on par with troponin T ...

Senior consultant interventional cardiologist at Apollo Main hospitals in Chennai Dr Y Vijayachandra Reddy said that highly ...

Despite inconclusive ECG results, one test eventually revealed ... has become increasingly crucial in managing coronary artery disease (CAD). Software packages now allow clinicians to monitor ...

During a coronary artery bypass, the diseased sections of your coronary arteries are bypassed with healthy artery or vein grafts to increase blood flow to the heart muscle tissue. This procedure is ...

In November 2023, the 46-year-old survived a spontaneous coronary artery dissection ... After calling 911, paramedics said ...

The goal of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is to improve blood flow to your heart. The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist. Your heart pumps blood and oxygen to all of the organs and ...

Whether age-related risk factors diminish the low risk predicted by a zero coronary artery calcium score has been uncertain—until now. A large new study of more than 40,000 patients by heart ...

A coronary artery calcium score of zero indicates essentially no advanced coronary plaques. A score of 1-99 indicates a mild case of plaque, a score of 100-299 a moderate case, and a score of 300 ...