Endothelial cells residing in the coronary arteries can function as cardiac stem cells to produce new heart muscle tissue, investigators have discovered. The heart has long been considered to be an ...

Photo Credit: Adapted from Prasad M. Case in a Box: Step-by-step Approach to Assessment of Microvascular Disease in an INOCA Patient. Presented at: TCT 2023. San Francisco, CA. For patients with ...

In a pilot study of people living with HIV or high levels of cholesterol, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that a six-week course of a cholesterol-lowering medication improved the function of ...

A specific pattern of proteins in the blood may reflect an increased risk of hereditary atherosclerosis. This is shown in a new study from Karolinska ...

Six-week course of PCSK9 inhibitor, a cholesterol-lowering medication, found to improve the function of the coronary arteries that provide oxygen to the heart. PCSK9 inhibitor, lowers the activity of ...

In patients with angina with nonobstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA), routine ad hoc coronary function testing (CFT) during initial invasive angiography combined with a disease-specific treatment ...

Coronary atherosclerosis severity is significantly associated with decreased renal function, according to researchers. A team led by Toshiaki Nakano, MD, PhD, of the Graduate School of Medical ...