ONE hundred and ninety saddle emboli at the aortic bifurcation have been reported to date. To these we are adding 3 cases, making a total of 193. Two of our 3 patients were treated by embolectomy ...

Dr Ahmed added: "Sometimes, your blood flow can become more turbulent, and the most common causes for this are things like aneurysms and atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries). You can also ...

In animal studies, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have found a possible mechanism for how the artificial sweetener aspartame may contribute to atherosclerosis - a common cause of cardiovascular ...

Recognition of cardiac risk factors and atherosclerosis allows for earlier treatment interventions and risk factor modification in these patients." Christopher Malozzi, DO, lead author of the ...

“The overall goal of the study was to determine the presence of traditional cardiac risk factors in this specific cancer population and to determine the usefulness of available CT imaging in the ...

Department of Internal Medicine, Frankel Cardiovascular Center, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor. (Y. Liu, H.W., Y.C., Ying Zhao, Y. Luo, G.Z., Yang ...

3 Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China Introduction Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease ...

But a brain (or aortic) aneurysm that ruptures and bursts can ... Another common condition called atherosclerosis can also cause brain aneurysms. In atherosclerosis, plaques made mostly of fat ...

Tanaka et al. investigated the role of CCR4 in early atherosclerosis, focusing on the immune modulation elicited by this chemokine receptor under hypercholesterolemia. The study found that Ccr4 ...