The left anterior descending coronary artery (a.k.a. LAD, interventricular artery or the “widow maker”) supplies the anterior, anterolateral, anteroapical and apical segments of the left ...

The left circumflex artery, usually smaller in diameter than the LAD, encircles the mitral ... 3D imaging technique can accurately depict coronary anatomy and its relation to the great vessels.

An anterior myocardial infarction results from occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. This can cause an ST elevation myocardial infarction or a non-ST segment elevation ...

Currently, MSCT scanners provide high-quality cardiac images. Although rather robust images of the coronary artery are obtained frequently, MSCT coronary angiography is not sufficiently reliable ...

After pericardiocentesis, cardiac catheterization demonstrated traumatic dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery with older thrombi, which was then treated by implantation of a ...