The left main coronary artery arises from the left coronary cusp and bifurcates into the left anterior descending (LAD) and the left circumflex coronary arteries. Since the left main supplies a very ...

The lateral femoral circumflex artery supplies oxygenated blood to the anterior (front) and middle portions of the thigh muscles. It typically branches off from the deep femoral artery, although in a ...

The medial femoral circumflex artery branches off from the deep femoral artery and supplies oxygenated blood to the muscles of the middle of the thigh and hip joint. The blood comes from the heart ...

A 70-year-old woman with an acute myocardial infarction presented with ventricular fibrillation and SCAD of an obtuse marginal branch of the left circumflex artery (Panel A, bracket). Computed ...

The 3D CT data set can be evaluated by various post-processing techniques. Multiplanar reconstructions allow visualization of any cross-section through the volume. Oblique as well as curved ...

What determines the dominance of the coronary arteries (left versus right dominance)? Coronary dominance refers the which vessel the posterior descending coronary artery arises from. In approximately ...

A 56-year-old male - known severe anomalous left circumflex disease managed medically - presented with unstable angina pectoris. Past medical history was significant for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, ...