Diagnosis and Treatment of Subclavian Artery Occlusive Disease Patrick A Stone; Mohit Srivastiva; John E Campbell; Albeir Y Mousa Disclosures Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2010;8 (9):1275-1282. 0 ...

However, for 41-year-old Carissa Klundt, it caused a tear in the artery that runs along her spine. A vertebral artery dissection, or VAD, is a tear in one or more tissue layers that make up the ...

The number of artery tears increased about 10% a year on average, rising from 11 cases per million people in 2005 to 46 cases per million in 2019, results show.

His studies showed that a B vitamin deficiency could cause hardened arteries. It took the medical profession more than a decade to catch up. By Michael S. Rosenwald Kilmer S. McCully, a ...

The vertebral-basilar system supplies the brain-stem, cerebellum and temporal and occipital lobes 2 (Fig. 1). It begins as the vertebral artery, which is the first branch of the subclavian artery.

California dad Ian Applegate’s sneeze was so powerful it tore the artery that supplies blood to his brain. He is determined to recover before his wife gives birth to their second child.

The intima: The innermost layer that is lined by endothelium—a thin membrane that lines the inside of the blood vessels and is comprised of endothelial cells, which release substances that control ...

The right carotid-subclavian bypass was performed with a 10 mm Dacron graft (Figure 4). The right subclavian artery and right vertebral artery were stapled and suture ligated, respectively, at their ...

In peripheral artery disease, Abbott estimates that the condition as a whole affects more than 20 million people in the U.S., though only 10% of those may have an official diagnosis.

A new study has linked the presence of microplastics in artery-clogging plaque to a higher risk of heart disease and even death. From remote regions of Antarctica and layers of sediment untouched ...

No other abnormalities were found in the subclavian or thyrocervical takeoff (figure 2). Selective catheterization of the right thyrocervical trunk confirmed this aberrant connection to the occipital ...