The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer-reviewed.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 ...

London, UK - Heart-disease patients with a well-developed collateral coronary circulation have an improved survival compared with patients with less developed collaterals, a new meta-analysis has ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Pressure-controlled intermittent coronary sinus occlusion (PiCSO) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) appeared safe but ineffective in reducing infarct size, the PiCSO-AMI-I trial ...

It’s been estimated that the human body contains about 60,000 miles of blood vessels. The heart has to pump blood through every inch of them unceasingly to meet the body’s bottomless needs for oxygen ...