A scientific statement has been published by the AHA regarding the relationship between alcohol use and cardiovascular disease.

While a hefty £1,000 fine awaits anyone who is found to be dishonest in declaring their condition, drivers may also face ...

Signs of a tear in main artery from Mark Villers' heart missed at Good Hope Hospital - in part due to there being not enough radiologists ...

Nutcracker syndrome may go away as you grow taller or gain weight. This shift can naturally change the angle between your aorta and superior mesenteric artery, easing pressure on your left renal vein.

Summary . The abdominal aorta starts just below the diaphragm and runs down the back of the abdomen. It supplies oxygenated blood to vital organs, including the kidneys, stomach, intestines, and liver ...

That legacy began in 2007 and was consolidated in 2013, when MUHC physicians performed the world’s first repositionable transcatheter aortic valve procedure on a patient with severe aortic ...

With this in mind, several noninvasive and invasive imaging and functional tools have been adopted for use in renal intervention to try and improve the prediction of which lesion and which patient ...

He slit open the 70-year-old duke’s belly and cut down to the aorta, the body’s main artery, on which he found a 4-in. section that had swollen into an aneurysm, much as an inner tube will ...

Here, the aorta was occluded for seventy minutes while this tear was repaired and control below the renal arteries obtained; this patient had no evidence of renal or spinal-cord injury.

“The current approach is percutaneous access, where the interventionalist feeds a catheter through the aorta into the right and left renal arteries to deliver energy,” Fisher said.

Renal hypertension is a type of high blood pressure caused by narrowing of the renal artery, ... This is a narrowing of one or both arteries that carries blood from the aorta to the kidneys.