The lumbar spine includes the five vertebrae in your lower back numbered L1 to L5. These bones help provide mobility and stability to your back and spinal column and are an attachment point for many ...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a condition in which one or more of the arteries supplying blood to the body, flowing away from the heart, become blocked or partially blocked. This often reduces ...

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He hopes to expand this research beyond the carotid artery and also run some animal experiments to test for cause and effect. "We just don't know," Clark said. "Almost all of what we know about ...

In 2024, researchers in Italy reported finding micronanoplastics in plaque from some people without symptoms who underwent surgery to remove carotid artery plaque. Symptoms caused by carotid ...

In 2024, researchers in Italy reported finding micronanoplastics in plaque from some people without symptoms who underwent surgery to remove carotid artery plaque. Symptoms caused by carotid ...

He was rushed to hospital and underwent a 10 hour operation after an artery was sliced in the attack, which could have caused him to bleed to death. Richardson's right-hand man, David Togher was ...

High-volume physical activity (PA) is associated with a higher prevalence of subclinical coronary artery disease (CAD). However, the clinical significance of subclinical CAD among high-volume ...

She subsequently had a computed tomography angiography chest in May 2023, which revealed a normal aortic arch and a focal, noncalcified, subtotal occlusion of the proximal left subclavian artery with ...

Finally, a fourth type of vascular ring with RAA is a RAA with an aberrant innominate artery. The first branch is the right carotid and does not classify as a RAA branching pattern; one may be ...

Abstract: The pulmonary artery (PA) is a multi-level vascular system composed of the main pulmonary artery (mPA) and the branch pulmonary arteries (bPA). Accurate segmentation of the PA is of ...