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Everything You Should Know About the Types of Heart Attacks

Heart diseases are highly common throughout the world; however, the rising figures are a cause for concern. Every heart condition is critical and needs immediate medical intervention.

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Common Biomarker Tests Identify Risk For Heart Disease and Stroke In Seemingly Healthy Patients

Biomarkers that predict heart diseases can predict strokes too. That's because both stroke and heart diseases have same underlying pathology. Besides being leading causes of death, both stroke and heart diseases share some four or five common risk factors too. These include smoking, high cholesterol, Diabetes and high blood pressure. However, people who are at a borderline of either of these risk factors are prone to suffer both heart disease and stroke, also known as cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cer

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What is Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)?

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a novel technology with the first in-human studies. It directly assesses the severity of coronary blockage for angioplasty. Functions of OCT The standard technique for diagnosis of coronary artery disease and endovascular interventions has always been Coronary Angiography.  But over a period of time, its limitations had also become clear. Since it produces a two-dimensional representation of the vessel lumen only, the severity of lesion and plaque burden becomes d

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What is Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR)?

Coronary artery disease, also known as coronary heart disease, is the most common type of heart disease that affects millions of people worldwide. It is caused by a narrowing or blocking of the arteries due to plaque which restricts blood flow, and reduces the amount of oxygen to the heart. There are several different tools that aid physicians in the treatment of the disease. One traditional tool is a coronary angiogram, which is an X-ray examination of the blood vessels in the heart. Other advanced tools t

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