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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...