The left anterior descending coronary artery (a.k.a. LAD, interventricular artery or the “widow maker”) supplies the anterior, anterolateral, anteroapical and apical segments of the left ...

An anterior myocardial infarction results from occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. This can cause an ST elevation myocardial infarction or a non-ST segment elevation ...

SCV=superior caval vein; LAD=left anterior descending artery Multislice computed tomographic image of the diaphragmatic surface of the heart. Following the atrioventricular groove, the right ...

For some people, this artery, called the posterior descending artery, comes from the left ... heart—the strongest of which was CXCL12. Previous work from Red-Horse's group had already shown that ...

A study from Stanford researchers identifies the CXCL12 gene as a crucial regulator of the posterior descending artery’s development in the human heart ... mice also showed that reducing the protein ...