For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery. In a world first, a team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Emory School of ...

In 1893, a few decades after the first transatlantic cable was laid, Rudyard Kipling published a poem about the marvels of “The Deep-Sea Cables.” As communication became nearly instantaneous, Kipling ...

Microplastics are everywhere, including our arteries. And though their presence there is correlated with cardiovascular issues such as heart attacks and stroke, doctors have been eager to learn more ...

Kevin Murray knows the importance of cardiac health firsthand. The Tampa dad nearly died from an undiagnosed heart condition and needed to undergo emergency bypass surgery in 2003. Murray, now 72, ...

1 Cardiology Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Marien Ngouabi University, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. 2 Cardiology Department, Teaching Hospital of Brazzaville, Brazzaville, Republic of ...

In performing open arch replacement, surgeons at our center and others currently prefer to reattach the individual brachiocephalic branches separately, rather than reattaching a single island of ...

A 65-year-old man with interstitial lung disease due to mixed connective tissue disease, chronic cough, prior pleurodesis, and coronary artery disease developed a massive mediastinal haematoma with ...

New trial results show that intense gum disease treatment reduces how much the carotid artery narrows in otherwise healthy individuals. This suggests oral health should be taken seriously as a ...

ABSTRACT: We report a case of segmental arterial mediolysis (SAM) in a 45-year-old man with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). He presented with acute abdominal pain following a week of forceful ...

Covid-19 seems to accelerate the ageing of blood vessels, but perhaps only among women. The infection has previously been linked to cardiovascular complications, like heart disease, but how it has ...