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

Stroke remains a global health challenge, ranking second in worldwide mortality and fifth in U.S. deaths. In response, researchers at Ochsner Health, led by Hernan Bazan, MD, DFSVS, FACS, have ...

When surgical intervention is needed, carotid endarterectomy involves removing plaque from the artery, while carotid stenting ...

Internal Carotid ... severe carotid artery stenosis (≥ 70% stenosis involving the carotid artery bifurcation). This was established by duplex ultrasound imaging. None of the external carotids ...

Elon Musk recently had a necessary neck surgery due to a persistent injury from a sumo wrestling incident. Musk, who has undergone multiple surgeries, shared that this operation was painful but ...

Patients with atherosclerotic plaques in the carotid artery who continuously underwent CTA examination of head and neck from October 2020 to October ... posterior, internal, external), plaque ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday plans to establish a new agency called the "External Revenue Service" to collect money from foreign countries owed to the United States.

The patients’ workup included CTA head and neck, MRI brain, orbits and cervical spine which ... which showed moderate tortuosity of bilateral external carotid artery branches (see figure 1A and 1B).

These two rare meetings of the body and the mind made for a day to remember last week at Live Artery 2025, a festival of contemporary dance and performance, which aims to push the limits of ...

The pathophysiology of traumatic S-AVF remains not fully understood. The laceration theory posits that simultaneous laceration of both the artery and the adjacent vein leads to the formation of the ...

We consulted doctors, personal trainers and others to devise short, easy exercises for your head and neck, so you can work more comfortably. In this six-part series, we’ll roll out a new routine ...