Ischemic colitis reduces blood flow to the colon or large intestine. Mesenteric ischemia is a reduction in blood flow to the small intestine due to the narrowing of the arteries. Both conditions ...

The FIB-4 score, a noninvasive marker used to assess liver fibrosis based on age, liver enzyme levels, and platelet count, ...

The National Institutes of Health-funded ISCHEMIA study, which was published in 2020, enrolled 5,179 patients with stable CAD, preserved ejection fraction, and moderate-to-severe ischemia and ...

Gene therapy for sickle cell disease may help improve a major contributing factor to stroke risk in patients, reports a new ...

A new statement from leading heart and blood vessel experts in Europe is providing clinical guidance for treatments to prevent blood clots in patients with a serious condition called chronic ...

Acute or chronic upper limb ischemia is an uncommon condition [1,2,3] that is responsible for between 15 and 18% of the procedures undertaken for critically ischemic limbs. [4,5] Thromboembolic ...

In this Healio Video Perspective from Clinical Trials at the Summit, Arshad M. Khanani, MD, MA, FASRS, highlights first-time ...

To investigate EPC kinetics during tissue ischemia, we assessed the frequency and differentiation of EPCs by EPC isolation from peripheral blood and EPC culture assay. EPC-enriched fractions were ...

Figure 1. An 81-year-old woman with long-standing hypertension and diabetes mellitus was evaluated for increasingly frequent and longer episodes of epigastric pain soon after eating. She grew progr ...