This is an emergency, Conner said. About 50% of people who have an aortic dissection die at home. Of the other 50% who make ...

These arteries (which also include the aorta, pulmonary artery, and femoral artery) are the largest in the body and they are closest to the heart; they give rise to medium-sized vessels (or ...

Overall complication rates were similar to those seen with transfemoral access, however, and patients liked it better.

In severe aortic regurgitation, gradual pressure over the femoral artery leads to a systolic and diastolic bruit. The systolic murmur is heard best when the proximal femoral artery is compressed ...

This involves entering the anesthetized femoral arteries with a needle ... The contralateral extension is positioned in the iliac artery. The graft thus extends from the aorta below the renal arteries ...

The hospital's state-of-the-art American Heart and Vascular Institute performed a challenging surgery including open ...

Being shot in the femoral artery is a severe injury. “It bleeds a lot. It’s a big one, one of the main arteries off of the aorta,” Kennedy said. Kennedy said based on the investigation by ...

One of the exclusion criteria for renal transplant is severe iliac artery calcification ... Eight patients required a bypass from the thoracic aorta and two from the infrarenal level.

The type of surgery used to treat PAD will depend on the size and location of the affected leg artery or arteries. Surgeries include: Aortobifemoral bypass.Femoropopliteal (fem-pop) ...