ALLMedicine™ Coronary Artery Disease Center

Dec 3rd, 2020 - Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is a noninvasive reliable cardiovascular imaging technology to assess coronary atherosclerosis progression. However, there is limited data available to investigate the relationship between the atherosclerosis progres...

Dec 3rd, 2020 - Adipose tissue serves not only as an energy store or a mechanical cushion, but also as an endocrine organ. Recent evidence revealed that perivascular adipose tissue is involved in vascular homeostasis and pathophysiology of adjacent arteries by pr...

Dec 3rd, 2020 - The Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction Risk Score for Heart Failure in Diabetes (TRS-HFDM ) risk stratifies patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and high cardiovascular risk for heart failure (HF) hospitalization. The utility of TRS-HF...

Dec 3rd, 2020 - The coronary calcium score (CCS) predicts cardiovascular disease risk in individuals with diabetes mellitus, and rate of progression of CCS is an additional and incremental marker of risk. 18F-sodium fluoride positron emission tomography (18F-NaF ...

Dec 2nd, 2020 - This study was performed to explore the value of a machine with built-in speckle tracking automated functional imaging (AFI) in predicting the severity of coronary artery lesions in patients with suspected stable coronary artery disease (SCAD) wit...

Nov 6th, 2020 - Patients with acute nonspecific chest pain and low probability for coronary disease remain an important clinical management dilemma. We focus on evidence for imaging, in an integrated decision-making setting. The American College of Radiology Appr...

Oct 9th, 2020 - Cardiovascular computed tomography (CCT) is a well-validated non-invasive imaging tool with an ever-expanding array of applications beyond the assessment of coronary artery disease. These include the evaluation of structural heart diseases, congen...

May 5th, 2020 - Chest pain is a frequent cause for emergency department visits and inpatient evaluation, with particular concern for acute coronary syndrome as an etiology, since cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Although ...

Mar 16th, 2020 - JCS 2020 Guideline Focused Update on Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease.|2020|Nakamura M,Kimura K,Kimura T,Ishihara M,Otsuka F,|standards,diagnostic imaging,therapy,etiology,prevention & control,administration & dosage...

Nov 30th, 2019 - Because patients with stable coronary artery disease are at continued risk of major atherosclerotic events despite effective secondary prevention strategies, there is a need to continue to develop additional safe, effective and well-tolerated ther...

Dec 3rd, 2020 - Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is a noninvasive reliable cardiovascular imaging technology to assess coronary atherosclerosis progression. However, there is limited data available to investigate the relationship between the atherosclerosis progres...

Dec 3rd, 2020 - Adipose tissue serves not only as an energy store or a mechanical cushion, but also as an endocrine organ. Recent evidence revealed that perivascular adipose tissue is involved in vascular homeostasis and pathophysiology of adjacent arteries by pr...

Dec 3rd, 2020 - The Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction Risk Score for Heart Failure in Diabetes (TRS-HFDM ) risk stratifies patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and high cardiovascular risk for heart failure (HF) hospitalization. The utility of TRS-HF...

Dec 3rd, 2020 - The coronary calcium score (CCS) predicts cardiovascular disease risk in individuals with diabetes mellitus, and rate of progression of CCS is an additional and incremental marker of risk. 18F-sodium fluoride positron emission tomography (18F-NaF ...

Dec 2nd, 2020 - This study was performed to explore the value of a machine with built-in speckle tracking automated functional imaging (AFI) in predicting the severity of coronary artery lesions in patients with suspected stable coronary artery disease (SCAD) wit...

Oct 21st, 2020 - A 72-year-old man with a history of hypertension and coronary artery disease presents to the emergency department complaining of weakness, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. His physical examination is unremarkable. An ECG is obtained. Figure 1. Courte...

Oct 6th, 2020 - 2. Managing comorbid conditions is important. Although HFpEF is frequently characterized by its phenotypic heterogeneity, most patients also present with a host of other discrete, treatable medical comorbidities, such as hypertension, valvular hea...

Oct 5th, 2020 - Specific underlying factors cause various forms of heart failure, such as systolic heart failure (most commonly, left ventricular [LV] systolic dysfunction), heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), acute heart failu...

Oct 5th, 2020 - The European Society of Cardiology and European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (ESC/EACTS) have announced they will review their joint recommendations for left main coronary artery disease in light of emerging data. The myocardial revascul...

Sep 30th, 2020 - The EXCEL trial comparing revascularization of left main coronary artery disease with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using drug-eluting stents vs coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) should have been straightforward. One group gets PCI,...