Keeping blood pressure under control is critical. For patients who have been unable to successfully maintain that control, there is a new, cutting-edge surgical procedure available at The Heart Center ...

Rebecca P. Winsett, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. Judy C. Martin, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, College of ...

On the other hand, high values (CVP > 12mmHg and PAOP > 18mmHg) may indicate a low FT capacity in certain clinical circumstances and are associated with an increased risk of peripheral edema, ascites, ...

Doppler ultrasound to assess radial artery patency will be performed at 30 days ... previous CABG surgery or previous stroke/transient ischaemic attack will also be collected. Renal function will be ...

Objective To determine the impact of ultrasound (US) intrinsic limitation to assess aortitis versus FDG-PET ... Only patients with GCA confirmed by US were included. Temporal arteries (TA) and ...

This study aimed to determine the clinical value of contemporary stress echocardiography (SE) in morbidly obese patients referred for assessment of suspected coronary artery disease (CAD ... The ...

Background: The 2022 EULAR guidelines state “Ultrasound of temporal and axillary arteries should be considered as the first imaging modality to investigate mural inflammatory changes in patients with ...

RDN involves the selective disruption of the sympathetic nerves located in the renal arteries. By ablating these nerves, RDN aims to reduce sympathetic activity, thereby lowering BP. The procedure is ...

Stents and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) treat blocked arteries and coronary artery disease (CAD). Stents are a less invasive option, while CABG is a major surgery. Your healthcare provider ...

Doctors thread a small catheter, or tube, through blood vessels to reach the kidneys, and then beam in ultrasound or radiofrequency energy. Those pulses pass through the renal arteries to selectively ...

To noninvasively estimate cerebral blood flow volume, a prospective study of color duplex sonography of the common, external, and internal carotid arteries and vertebral arteries of healthy adults was ...