The abdominal aorta is a large artery in your belly that carries blood from the heart to the lower part of the body. In early fetal development, it forms from two smaller blood vessels, called the ...

Coronary artery chronic total occlusion (CTO) is defined as an occluded coronary artery segment without anterograde flow for at least three months. It can be classified as a “true” or “functional” CTO ...

2 Beijing Key Laboratory for Genetic Research of Skeletal Deformity, Beijing, China Background Brain arteriovenous malformations (BAVM) represent a congenital anomaly of the cerebral vessels with a ...