ANY artery in the body has the potential of dilating abnormally if weakness develops in the artery wall. If this dilatation is of significant degree, the lesion is described as an aneurysm. If the ...

The hypogastric artery, also called the iliac artery, provides blood flow to the organs in your pelvis. You have an abdominal aorta, which is a large artery that travels down into your pelvis, where ...

SUDDEN occlusion of the aortic bifurcation by embolic clot released from the heart constitutes one of the rare but dramatically important emergency situations seen in medical practice. If such a clot ...

EL PASO, Texas -- William Beaumont Army Medical Center became the first military treatment facility in the Department of Defense to use the first "off-the-shelf" aortic branch device (stent graft) ...

Music by Muzak was soft and low. Two Sleepy People and So Bears My Heart for You flowed over the operating room in Houston’s Methodist Hospital. But the patient on the table, His Royal Highness Prince ...

Artery narrowing is very uncommon in other-wise healthy young people. However, male cyclists were probably the first competitive athletes to be identified to have narrowing of external iliac artery, ...

A 69-year-old Caucasian male was referred with a 10-year history of ‘resistant’ hypertension. Previous investigations prior to referral to our specialist hypertension clinic had ruled out renal and ...

Prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) among patients with aortic abdominal aneurysms (AAAs) ranges between 40% and 60%. 1 A correlation between CAD severity and AAA prevalence has also been ...