The abdominal aorta is a large artery in your belly that carries blood from the heart to the lower part of the body. In early fetal development, it forms from two smaller blood vessels, called the ...

The evidence supporting the efficacy of exercise therapy for patients with PAD dates back to 1966 when 6 months of unsupervised intermittent walking exercise was demonstrated to improve time walked to ...

Rarely, chronic ocular hypoperfusion can result from pathology of the carotid or ophthalmic artery and can cause ocular ischemic syndrome. This syndrome is characterized by punctate retinal ...

Your body tries to clear up the inflammation, which creates a seal of fibrous material over the fatty material. Over time, this forms a hardened plaque (also known as atheroma), making your artery ...

One conceptual answer to this question is by an ancient transcription factor regulating ciliary gene expression in both unicellular and multicellular organisms, but examples of such transcription ...

The anterior tibial artery is located in the lower leg, running from the popliteal fossa just behind the knee down along the tibia and fibula, the major bones of the lower leg. It is a branch of the ...

More tests showed that her left circumflex artery "had a 99% blockage." A piece of plaque that had built up in the artery had detached, blocking nearly all blood flow. "They told my family I was ...

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. (A.A.d.O., F.S., M.E.G., R.K., A.Q., C.-L.M.C., S.T.D.) Women and Children’s ...

What is an aortic dissection? An aortic dissection is a tear (dissection) in the wall of the body’s main artery (aorta). The aorta sends blood from your heart to the rest of your body. A tear causes ...

It is sometimes used to determine overall function of the heart. An abnormality of the arteries may include plaque buildup, which may consist of calcium, cholesterol or fat that can lead to ...

The ophthalmic artery is the first branch of the internal carotid artery. Its ocular group gives off the central retinal artery, posterior ciliary artery, and anterior ciliary artery. The central ...

We report that disruption of the mixed-lineage protein kinase (MLK) - cJun NH 2-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling pathway in endothelial cells causes severe blockade of blood flow and failure to recover ...