Your body tries to clear up the inflammation, which creates a seal of fibrous material over the fatty material. Over time, this forms a hardened plaque (also known as atheroma), making your artery ...

A 14-year-old boy accidentally severed his own artery with a 'vicious' samurai sword after stabbing a 'rival' teenager in a ...

Under local anesthesia achieved with lidocaine, the right femoral artery and femoral vein were punctured ... with only a small amount of contrast agent remaining in the pseudoaneurysm. A 6-F delivery ...

The anterior tibial artery is located in the lower leg, running from the popliteal fossa just behind the knee down along the tibia and fibula, the major bones of the lower leg. It is a branch of the ...

A retrospective comparison of the femoral approach with laser sheath for extraction of older ... and cardiac structures (e.g., subclavian artery, aorta, pleura, atrial or ventricular wall or ...

As technology trends toward less invasive methods and sheath sizes become smaller ... of percutaneous closure devices for common femoral artery access, factors important in patient selection ...

More tests showed that her left circumflex artery "had a 99% blockage." A piece of plaque that had built up in the artery had detached, blocking nearly all blood flow. "They told my family I was ...

A 'beautiful' six-year-old girl has died after a needle accidentally pierced a major artery during a 'minor' procedure. Amelia 'Millie' Ridout suffered 'massive, catastrophic' internal bleeding ...

Genome‐wide association studies have identified several hundred susceptibility single nucleotide variants for coronary artery disease (CAD). Despite single nucleotide variant‐based genome‐wide ...