Contemporary studies have demonstrated that revascularization therapy targeted at coronary anatomy alone has not been able to consistently yield significant prognostic clinical outcomes. The practice ...

Intramyocardial delivery of genes and cells derived from bone marrow has been evaluated in several small studies of 'no-option' symptomatic patients with chronic ischemic coronary artery disease.

Each year in the United States 200,000–500,00bstract: 500,000 people have a transient ischemic attack (TIA). These episodes of brief neurologic deficits were thought to be fairly benign, but this view ...

Among patients with coronary artery disease referred for cardiovascular magnetic resonance and found to have regional myocardial wall thinning (of the heart muscle), limited scar burden was associated ...

Base-line measurements of creatine phosphokinase (19 patients) and blood lactic acid (21 patients) were made. We then performed ischemic exercise tests by having the patient squeeze a rubber ball, as ...