A 48-year-old female patient with bipolar affective disorder attempted to commit suicide by falling from a bridge. She sustained comminuted fractures of calcanei, burst fracture of the body of L-3 ...

Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from your heart. They have thick walls and a muscular layer that keeps your blood moving. Arteries can be as wide as a nickel (about two centimeters). They are the ...

Patients suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) who are progressing from stage 4 chronic disease to stage 5, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), typically need dialysis when they reach stage 5. When ...

Over the past few decades, the mainstay of hypertension management has been pharmacological therapy; however, there is now a growing body of evidence that drug-resistant hypertension can be managed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medtronic announced that enrollment has begun for the SYMPLICITY AF study, which will assess whether paroxysmal ...

Both arteries and veins are types of blood vessels in the cardiovascular system. An artery carries blood away from the heart, and a vein carries blood back to the heart. Blood vessels are essential ...

THE appreciation of renal-artery lesions as a cause of systemic hypertension began with the work of Goldblatt et al. 1 in 1934. This experimental finding was immediately implicated in human ...

Evaluation of the renal parenchyma and vasculature of potential living kidney donors can be performed with conventional angiography or noninvasive imaging such as helical CT angiography and gadolinium ...