A 71-year-old female was admitted to our cardiac surgery clinic for a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure. Three months earlier, she had an acute inferoposterior myocardial infarction ...

Find out what you need to know about the brachial artery, as well as blood supply to the arm, forearm, and hand. Learn about the location of this artery and how to keep it safe.

Brachial artery aneurysms (BAAs) ... Graft Interposition: A surgical procedure where a graft (a piece of tissue) is used to replace or bypass a damaged section of a blood vessel.

The results suggest the possibility of asymmetrical exercise-induced arterial adaptations between the brachial arteries of ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2010;8(9):1275-1282. Finally, we examined our own experience with a 9-year follow-up of primary stenting, which is one of the longest to date. A total of 91 patients ...

Tsukuba, Japan—In athletes, the arterial structure and function undergo sport-specific adaptations in response to the demands of their activities. For instance, in baseball players, repeated ...

The diastolic pressure in the brachial artery was 22 mm. of mercury higher than that in the femoral artery. This seventy-four-year-old patient died and was autopsied.

Doctors screen for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) with an ankle-brachial index (ABI) test, which measures blood pressure in the legs. Experts recommend that anyone with PAD risk factors undergo ...

In patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a novel analysis evaluating surgeon preference for multi- ...

Rodney McKinley found out he had peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in 2011, when his frequent walks dissolved into searing pain. “When I would lay down in bed to sleep, it felt like someone had ...

Still discusses that in this procedure, the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) is robotically harvested and then used to bypass the LAD through a 4-5cm incision. She notes that her robotic CABG ...

1.1 There is not enough evidence to recommend routine adoption of automated ankle brachial pressure index (ABPI) measurement devices to detect peripheral arterial disease in people with leg ulcers.