In chronic heart stimulation, endocardial pacing leads, both passive with the aid of silicone tines or active screw-in, become firmly attached to implanted sites. The lead body may become attached to ...

A 53-year-old German man became the first person to undergo a new, non-surgical technique that turned one of his coronary veins into a coronary artery to bypass a blockage, according to a special ...

A novel device called venous external support (VEST) may lead to increased longevity and durability of saphenous (leg) vein grafting during coronary artery bypass surgery, according to a new trial ...

Scott Johnstone (left), an associate professor with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, and Mark Joseph, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Carilion Clinic, led a study published in the Journal of ...

Factors associated with the surgical procedure of bypass grafting, such as vein graft harvesting and handling, and the size and condition of the conduit and target vessel, determine long-term patency ...

Cardiovascular diseases constitute a major global health concern. Various complications that affect normal blood flow in ...

Paz and colleagues' findings, however, indicate improvements in myocardial ischemia after permanently reducing coronary venous outflow with a CSRS introduced into the silent zone of the great cardiac ...

A three-week-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of cardiac failure with diffuse ventricular hypocontractility and normal cardiac anatomy on echocardiography. Coronary and ventricular ...

A recently implanted left ventricular lead was fixated in the coronary sinus due to thrombosis while attempting to reposition the lead because of phrenic nerve stimulation. A 77-year-old woman was ...