Merrill H. Stewart, MD, Ochsner Health, explains misconceptions about stents and bypass surgery and highlights when cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) stress testing is most appropriate.

Emerging data from the past 2 decades have significantly improved the understanding of IHD in women, including mechanisms of ischemia with no obstructive coronary arteries and myocardial infarction ...

More than 60 million American women have heart disease. "The statistics haven't improved enough," a women's heart doctor told ...

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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a condition that happens when the main blood vessels supplying the heart become narrowed or blocked. This is usually due to a buildup of fatty deposits ...

When it comes to other methods of breaking through calcium deposits—such as rotational or orbital atherectomy, to prepare for the use of a stent or an artery-widening balloon—women have also ...

PLAINSBORO, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Heart bypass surgery: What used to be an extraordinary procedure for clogged arteries is now done more than a thousand times a day. And it's still a powerful fix ...

In pulmonary arterial hypertension (a form of pulmonary hypertension), the blood vessels in your lungs are narrowed, blocked, and or destroyed. This slows or blocks the blood flow to the lungs and can ...

A digital 3D animation depicts red blood cells flowing through a narrowed artery. The arterys lining is thick with plaque buildup, constricting the space available for blood flow. The red blood cells ...

Here, you can learn about foods that can make you overweight or clog your arteries. Clogged arteries is a buildup of plaque in arteries. Plaque is a mixture of fibrous and fatty accumulation that can ...