All of the patients were already undergoing preventative surgery to remove plaque from their carotid arteries (the main arteries that supply the brain with blood). This allowed the researchers to ...

Though heart disease encompasses a wide range of heart-related ailments and conditions, it generally refers to a condition where plaque builds up inside the walls of the arteries, thereby ...

February is heart month, a time to think about the health of your and your loved ones’ arteries. If arteries get stressed by ...

The narrowing of the carotid arteries is most commonly related to atherosclerosis (a build-up of plaque, which is a deposit of fatty substances, cholesterol, cellular waste products, calcium, and ...

Your doctor will pass the Embolic Protection System into the carotid artery to help capture any plaque or particles that could travel ... but the balloon will be removed. He will then remove the ...

February is heart month. Almost all heart attacks are preventable, but in spite of that they remain the number one cause of ...

But that is not usually necessary. Surgery – Sorgeons can do surgery to remove plaque from the carotid arteries. This is called “carotid endarterectomy.” This treatment is most ...

Previous studies have shown that microplastic and nanoplastic particles can induce inflammation and other negative effects in ...

Tammie Finley didn’t think she’d ever walk comfortably again, the result of leg pain she’d lived with for nearly a decade ...