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 ...

Revascularization is currently recommended for patients with unprotected left main coronary artery disease. In this review, Chieffo and Colombo discuss the safety and effectiveness of percutaneous ...

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.

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 ...

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