Peripheral artery disease (PAD), sometimes known as peripheral vascular disease (PVD), is a blockage of arteries in a limb, usually the leg. The blockage is most often the result of a chronic buildup ...

Objective: Spinal cord ischemia due to damage or occlusion of the orifices of aortic segmental arteries (ASA) is a serious complication of open and endovascular ... we set out to conduct a systematic ...

Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is a condition that affects the duodenum — the section of the small intestine that joins the stomach. The syndrome is caused by the compressing of the ...

Skin perfusion pressure at a cutoff value of 40 mm Hg has a sensitivity of 72% and a specificity of 88% in predicting wound healing. [12] Transcutaneous oxygen measurements at a cutoff value of 34 ...

At long last, Grey's Anatomy season 21 has aired its winter premier in the US on ABC following some dramatic developments. There have been some major changes occurring to the cast of Grey's ...

I have always enjoyed the thrill and discipline of staying fit. I played four sports in high school, was a walk-on quarterback at the University of Alabama and took up running in my 20s. This ...

In March, a small study in Italy found shards of microplastics in fatty deposits surgically removed from patients who had an operation to open up their clogged arteries – and reported their health ...

The thyroid gland is part of the endocrine system (along with the adrenal glands, hypothalamus, pituitary, ovaries, and testes, and other endocrine organs). The thyroid gland releases hormones into ...

The effect of adjunctive middle meningeal artery embolization on the risk of treatment failure in this population remains unknown. We randomly assigned patients with symptomatic chronic subdural ...

Of these patients, 7,967 had a CAC score of zero, meaning they had no calcified plaque in their coronary arteries. Of this group, women on average were older than men (60.5 years for women, 53.8 ...