Then, a deflated balloon attached to the catheter is inflated to open up the narrowed artery wall. A stent—an expandable mesh tube-shaped device—is placed, if needed, and left behind as a "scaffold" ...

Visualization of the inferior mesenteric artery is very difficult with ultrasonography. Thrombosis beyond proximal branches of splanchnic vessels are difficult to visualize with this study.

Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is a condition that affects the duodenum — the section of the small intestine that joins the stomach. The syndrome is caused by the compressing of the ...

When you have mesenteric venous thrombosis (MVT), you have a blood clot in a vein around where your intestines attach to your belly. The clot most often forms in a vein called the "superior ...

The effect of adjunctive middle meningeal artery embolization on the risk of treatment failure in this population remains unknown. We randomly assigned patients with symptomatic chronic subdural ...

Division of Interventional Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (S.-B.W., J.-M.A., D.-Y.K ...

The superior mesenteric artery was kept with the proximal midgut segment for the rest of the procedure. The hindgut was then removed from the distal midgut segment based on the position of the ...

Prof Mirela Delibegovic said research is in the early stages. A drug previously found to block artery fat in mice is also feasible in humans, according to University of Aberdeen scientists.