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 ...

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The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer-reviewed.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

Premenopausal women presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are a unique and often underrecognized patient population. Although they are traditionally considered at lower cardiovascular risk ...