The left main coronary artery arises from the left coronary cusp and bifurcates into the left anterior descending (LAD) and the left circumflex coronary arteries. Since the left main supplies a ...

Left Main Coronary Artery Disease Can Double Or Triple Heart Risk In Siblings Date: October 7, 2007 Source: Oxford University Press Summary: Researchers have found that heart disease of the left ...

The MAIN-COMPARE registry holds data on consecutive patients from 12 major cardiac centers in Korea that performed PCI or CABG for unprotected left main coronary artery disease (defined as ...

Positive results for unprotected left main coronary artery PCI with drug-eluting stents. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 06 / 110622115427.htm ...

Aug. 20 -- WEDNESDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Twelve-year data on treatment of blockage of the left main heart artery indicate that using a drug-coated stent is an effective alternative to ...

Yeatman M et al. (2001) Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery for critical left main stem disease: safety, efficacy and outcome. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 19: 239–234. Article CAS Google Scholar ...

Left Main Coronary Artery Disease: Pathology, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Presentation. Presenter: David E. Kandzari. ... Biolimus-Eluting Stent Versus Durable Polymer Everolimus-Eluting Stent in ...

Uskela, S., et al. (2023) Drug-coated balloon-only strategy for percutaneous coronary intervention of de novo left main coronary artery disease: the importance of proper lesion preparation ...

BOSTON -- Adding fuel to the controversy of revascularization for left main disease, patients had better survival after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery than percutaneous coronary ...

In approximately 10% of individuals the left circumflex coronary artery is considered dominant and it supplies a left posterior descending artery. This is considered a “left dominant” system.

The branches from your left coronary artery send blood to your heart's front and left side, as well as the outer side and back of your heart. The two main branches of your left main coronary ...

German researchers have found that heart disease of the left main coronary artery is often an inherited condition that clusters in families. Moreover, they discovered that initially healthy ...