High blood pressure is a powerful cardiovascular risk factor because of its actions on the arterial wall, and its role in events that affect the heart and the brain. Drug treatment of hypertension ...

About 1 in 5 clot-caused (ischemic) strokes result from a clot obstructing a large artery (large vessel occlusions) in the brain. The standard of care in the U.S. per the American Heart ...

Inflammation of large arteries such as the aorta and its major branches occurs in a number of disorders, including Kawasaki's syndrome, Behçet's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, syphilis ...

Recent data have suggested that patients with coronary disease in large arteries are at increased risk for late cardiac events after percutaneous intervention with first-generation drug-eluting ...

also called the iliac artery, provides blood flow to the organs in your pelvis. You have an abdominal aorta, which is a large artery that travels down into your pelvis, where it splits into your ...

In all cases, the ischaemic stroke was associated with blockages of large arteries (both carotid and middle cerebral artery) and two patients also had venous thrombosis involving the portal and ...

The arteries of the brain and heart are the two most common sites of a serious aneurysm. The aorta is the large artery that begins at the left ventricle of the heart and passes through the chest ...

At present, if an ischemic stroke patient has a stenosis of more than 50% of the carotid artery, this is classed as a large artery stroke and the patient would be considered for intervention to ...

An aortobifemoral bypass is a surgery that's done to redirect your blood flow around a large, blocked artery in your groin or abdomen. It increases the blood flow to your legs. It's a major ...

People may feel a pulse in their abdominal aorta, a large artery that runs through the stomach area. People may feel pulsing in the stomach during pregnancy or when pressing on the abdomen.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About one in four professional volleyball players surveyed in the Netherlands had symptoms that could suggest a potentially serious injury to a shoulder artery ...