In current European and American revascularization guidelines, RA grafts are now strongly endorsed as the second conduit for ...

Nassau University Medical Center announced the opening on Friday, March 7, of its new thoracic surgery clinic, which will expand specialized surgical care for patients with chest conditions ...

Government Executive first reported on the internal memo. Veterans have already been speaking out against the cuts at the VA that so far had included a few thousand employees and hundreds of ...

The abdominal aorta is a large artery in your belly that carries blood from the heart ... at the level of the twelfth thoracic vertebra (a spot in the upper abdomen). From there, it travels downward, ...

These guidelines have been developed at the request of the Standards of Care Committee of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and with the agreement of the Royal College of Radiologists and the British ...

What Is a Spinal MRI? A spinal MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, uses powerful magnets, radio waves, and a computer to make clear, detailed pictures of your spine. The MRI may scan your whole ...

Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR ... or sandwich techniques) into a renal or visceral artery (proximal aortic zones 6–8 and distal aortic zones 9–11) and extent I to III TAAAs (proximal ...

Over time, this forms a hardened plaque (also known as atheroma), making your artery narrower. This process, known as atherosclerosis, gradually continues as more fatty material builds up. This can ...

Diabetes, number of diseased vessels, proximal left anterior descending coronary artery location, and SYNTAX score did not effectively identify patients with better health status after invasive ...

The anterior tibial artery is located in the lower leg, running from the popliteal fossa just behind the knee down along the tibia and fibula, the major bones of the lower leg. It is a branch of the ...

The work is published in JAMA Internal Medicine. "In theory, widespread adoption of telemedicine post-pandemic may influence low-value testing—such as Pap smears and prostate cancer screenings ...

Center of Infectious Disease and Pathogen Biology, Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China With the maturity of thoracic endovascular aortic repair ...