In 1772, William Heberden described ‘a disorder of the breast marked with strong and peculiar symptoms… [with a] sense of strangling and anxiety’. Individuals affected are ‘seized while they are ...

A warning has been issued to dog owners against a little-known danger to their pooches in the summer months. Max, a Hungarian ...

Thickening of intima-media complex in the common carotid artery is a biomarker of atherosclerosis. To automatically measure this thickness, we propose a region-based segmentation method, involving a ...

Left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease can lead to what's known as a "widowmaker" heart attack, so-called because of the ...

External counterpulsation (ECP) is the mechanical therapy for ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in clinical. Mean arterial pressure for patients with cerebral ischemic stroke is the ...

Have you ever experienced a sudden, severe headache? What about a moment when words just wouldn’t come out right, even though ...

Objective Low association between cardiac symptoms and coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with inflammatory joint diseases (IJD) demands for objective markers to improve cardiovascular risk ...

An infant with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery is presented, and the problem of the direction of blood flow in the anomalous vessel is discussed. Determinations ...

In the United States, for instance, carotid artery disease causes a significant portion (approximately 10-20%) of the 500,000-plus strokes that occur each year.

Anatomy The left subclavian artery originates as the third branch from the transverse region of the aorta, following the brachiocephalic trunk and the left common carotid artery. The subclavian ...

Rotterdam Study reveals calcified plaques double bleeding risk, challenging assumptions about plaque stability in subclinical atherosclerosis ...