EMJ spoke with Arnold Seto, a leading interventional cardiologist, to discuss innovations in vascular access, procedural ...

Evolutionary organization of the arterial wall into layers occurred concomitantly with the emergence of a highly muscularized, pressurized arterial system that facilitates outward hydraulic ...

Guidelines recommend obtaining arterial blood samples but these are more difficult to obtain than venous. We assessed whether blood gas values derived from venous blood could replace arterial at ...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) typically refers to atherosclerotic narrowing and/or occlusion of all arterial disease other than coronary arteries and the aorta (carotid and vertebral arteries, ...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is when your blood travels through blood vessels with more force than is considered healthy. When blood pressure is high, it can damage artery and blood ...

Transcranial Doppler monitoring may alert the surgical team when emboli enter the cerebral circulation during ... including a 25-μm heparin-coated (Duraflo II; Baxter Bently) arterial line filter, ...

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that is characterized by inflammation of the joints and the subsequent destruction of cartilage and erosion of the bone. Patients with rheumatoid ...

The inferior division of the MCA is less commonly affected by emboli than the superior division, simply because the superior division is larger and carries more blood, and hence, it is statistically ...

Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to: Professor J M Wardlaw Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Crewe ...

Correspondence to Dr Pasquale Mordasini, Department for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Inselspital Universitatsspital Bern, Bern 3010, Switzerland; pasquale.mordasini{at}insel.ch ...

Clinical concerns with reaming include thermal necrosis of the bone tissue and pressure-generated emboli, both of which are related to the reaming mechanics. We have developed an instrumented reamer ...