CEREBROVASCULAR disease ranked third, after heart disease and cancer, as a cause of death in the United States in 1959. Almost 37,000 of these deaths occurred in persons between thirty-eight and sixty ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2010;8(9):1275-1282. Finally, we examined our own experience with a 9-year follow-up of primary stenting, which is one of the longest to date. A total of 91 patients were ...

CEREBROVASCULAR insufficiency due to subclavian-artery occlusion is more frequent, more simply diagnosed and more easily treated than generally recognized. Only recently has attention been focused on ...

The left and right internal thoracic artery (LITA and RITA, respectively), a branch of the subclavian artery, is often used for reconstruction of coronary arteries. Long-term results of this treatment ...

An under-recognized and usually asymptomatic condition called subclavian artery stenosis – an obstruction of arteries located under the clavicle, or collarbone – is important in the diagnosis and ...

Patients with aortic stenosis who undergo transcatheter aortic valve replacement via the subclavian and femoral arteries have equivalent clinical outcomes at 30 days and 1 year, according to a new ...

Aberrant subclavian artery anomalies represent the most common congenital variant of the aortic arch, often manifesting as an unusual origin or course of the subclavian artery. Such anomalies may be ...

Measuring the severity of coronary artery disease could be as simple as measuring blood pressure (BP), specifically comparing the difference in blood pressure values between a patient’s right and left ...

Acute pulmonary embolism is a life-threatening condition because it places sudden strain on the right ventricle of the heart.

Unfortunately, we do not have any level I evidence on the ideal management of subclavian artery occlusive disease. There is an abundance of case reports and retrospective papers on both endovascular ...