One of the most common signs that arteries might be blocked is chest pain, often called angina. People often describe it as a ...

The left anterior descending coronary artery (a.k.a. LAD ... many coronary anomalies that can affect the LAD and many normal anatomical variants, including the presence of a dual LAD system.

The goal of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is to improve blood flow to your heart. The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist. Your heart pumps blood and oxygen to all of the organs and ...

During a coronary artery bypass, the diseased sections of your coronary arteries are bypassed with healthy artery or vein grafts to increase blood flow to the heart muscle tissue. This procedure is ...

CAD also frequently leads to heart failure ... stenosis of a major epicardial coronary vessel (left anterior descending, circumflex or right coronary artery). Multiple tandem stenosis may ...