Six months after the procedure, the patient showed no signs of coronary artery obstruction, meaning VECTOR's first outing in ...

Celiac artery bypass is a surgery to increase blood flow to the organs supplied by your celiac artery. It involves using a graft to create an alternative passage for your blood. Your celiac artery, or ...

On the day before your treatment, you may be asked to withhold some of your blood pressure medication. This is so it does not interfere with the blood pressure response during the actual stent ...

Dear Doctor: My cardiovascular surgeon tells me medicine has mostly abandoned shunt and stent placements as a solution to carotid artery plaques. Instead, doctors are returning to the older ...

Routine use of the Fogarty embolectomy catheter after cardiac catheterization through a brachial arteriotomy in 25 patients was associated with a decline in major and minor complications from 28 to 4 ...

DANBURY — When 78-year-old Sandra Jellinghaus first discovered that her left carotid artery was 80 percent blocked, she worried she might be in for an “ordeal” of a surgery. The Watertown resident had ...

Genicular Artery Embolization (GAE) represents a new paradigm in treating knee osteoarthritis that had hitherto been handled by resorting to either temporary or surgical solutions. With an ideal blend ...

First In-Man Experience Exceeds Expectations, Cited as “Game Changer” for Below-the-Knee Procedures CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Summa Therapeutics, LLC announced today that the first-in-man ...

A mesenteric artery bypass is a procedure used to treat a blockage in your superior mesenteric artery. It involves using a graft sourced from another blood vessel or a synthetic material to create a ...