• Ultrasound guidance may lead to a higher first-attempt success rate and improved time to successful common femoral artery (CFA) access, while reducing the venipuncture rate (unintentionally ...

For patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy, sonolysis is safe and results in a significant reduction in the composite incidence of ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack, and death within 30 ...

Applying ultrasound to help break up thrombus during carotid endarterectomy reduces adverse neurological outcomes in the ...

A Southwest Florida couple made a substantial donation to Lee Health Heart Institute after saving his life. Brian Seasholes ...

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 ...

Transient ischemic attack was diagnosed in an 80-year-old man after he experienced a sudden onset of weakness in his left hand in December 1999. Although he was asymptomatic on admission, MRI ...

1 Department of Neurosurgery, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China 2 Department of Neurosurgery, Henan Sanbo Brain Hospital, Zhengzhou, China Intracranial artery dissections (IADs) ...

Orbital infarction syndrome (OIS) encompasses the ischaemic infarction of all intraorbital and intraocular structures (optic nerve, extraocular muscles and orbital fat) which leads to a painful loss ...

Background: Vertebral artery dissection (VAD) is an important cause of stroke in the young. It can present nonspecifically and may be misdiagnosed with adverse consequences. We assessed the ...