Medical Dialogues

Role of the Collateral Circulation in Stable Angina: Circulation Study Finds

A recent study concluded that coronary collateralization is associated with ischemic burden and may reduce the intensity of ...
TCTMD

Good Coronary Collateral Circulation? Better LVEF and Survival After STEMI

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 ...
Nature

Collateral circulation formation determines the characteristic profiles of contrast-enhanced MRI in the infarcted myocardium of pigs

To investigate the relationship between the collateral circulation and contrast-enhanced MR signal change for myocardial infarction (MI) in pigs. Pigs underwent permanent ligation of two diagonal ...
Wall Street Journal

When Good Circulation Isn't a Good Thing

Having good coronary collateral circulation, a network of microscopic blood vessels that form a type of detour around blockages in the heart, is normally considered an advantage in patients with heart ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Collateral Circulation through the Kidney after Inferior-Vena-Cava Ligation

No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words. From the departments of Radiology, Surgery and Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University (address reprint requests ...