What Does Ostial Mean?

Ostial disease, namely coronary ostial stenosis, is the occlusion of coronary ostium. Causing factors include atherosclerosis, syphilis, Kawasaki disease, and Takayasu's arteritis, etc.

What does ostial mean in medicine?

: a mouthlike opening in a bodily part (such as a fallopian tube or a blood vessel)

What does ostial LAD mean?

Abstract. Background: Ostial disease of the left anterior descending (LAD) or circumflex (LCX) coronary artery is a challenge for the interventionalist. Focal ostial stenting may result in incomplete lesion coverage or plaque shift into the adjacent vessel, creating left main equivalent disease.

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