The most effective treatment for carotid artery stenosis is carotid endarterectomy (CEA). To date, randomized trials of this procedure versus best medical care have excluded patients aged 80 years ...

Sleep is an important determinant of cardiovascular health. We sought to investigate the longitudinal association between sleep duration and incident carotid plaque in a rural Chinese population. A ...

While digital subtraction angiography (DSA) remains the gold standard, magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is attractive as a non-invasive follow-up technique. Two different MRA techniques have ...

A diagnosis of thoracic aortic dissection with rupture into the left pleural cavity was made. Unfortunately, the patient died after 2 h resuscitation. The majority of chest radiographic findings in ...

This article was originally posted Dec. 8, 2014. It has been updated. There are many things in medicine that are merely a matter of preference or style. How to check a patient’s pulse is not one ...

Because of rapid filling and vascular overlap, two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) digital subtraction angiography (DSA) are often suboptimal for evaluation of these features. We have ...

Sometimes these nodes need to be removed after having chemotherapy. This is called a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND). The lymph nodes may shrink after having chemotherapy. But they may ...

Addition of revascularization to optimized medical therapy not beneficial in patients with carotid stenosis ≥50 percent and low or intermediate predicted stroke risk ...