Lower extremity peripheral artery disease is a condition that develops when the arteries in the legs and feet become narrowed, or occluded, by an accumulation of a fatty substance called plaque, which ...

MDCT angiography leads to accurate recommendations for successful treatment of patients with critical limb ischemia, sometimes allowing the patients to avoid more complicated surgery, according to a ...

Our heart works continuously, pumping blood throughout the body and keeping us alive. When the heart functions properly, we ...

Some patients with COVID-19 develop symptomatic arterial thrombosis in their legs that is difficult to eradicate by usual means and portends worse outcomes, new data show. The small study of COVID-19 ...

Researchers now say an indirect CT venography ( CTV ) could identify blood clots in the legs that have the potential to break free, travel to the lung, and block an artery a life-threatening condition ...

WASHINGTON, DC — A large study testing two different vascular-closure devices suggests that they are as good as manual compression for reducing vascular-site complications among patients undergoing ...

New data presented Saturday at TCT 2014 show that, in patients undergoing transfemoral coronary angiography, vascular closure devices match manual compression in terms of vascular access site ...