Celiac artery bypass is a surgery to increase blood flow to the organs supplied by your celiac artery. It involves using a graft to create an alternative passage for your blood. Your celiac artery, or ...

Six months after the procedure, the patient showed no signs of coronary artery obstruction, meaning VECTOR's first outing in ...

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Patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiogram, a procedure used to assess blockages in the heart's arteries, had a significantly lower risk of major bleeding and death if their ...

Dear Doctor: My cardiovascular surgeon tells me medicine has mostly abandoned shunt and stent placements as a solution to carotid artery plaques. Instead, doctors are returning to the older ...

DANBURY — When 78-year-old Sandra Jellinghaus first discovered that her left carotid artery was 80 percent blocked, she worried she might be in for an “ordeal” of a surgery. The Watertown resident had ...

An atherectomy is a minimally invasive procedure to remove plaque buildup from an artery (blood vessel). Removing this plaque allows blood to flow more freely through the artery. An atherectomy treats ...

A mesenteric artery bypass is a procedure used to treat a blockage in your superior mesenteric artery. It involves using a graft sourced from another blood vessel or a synthetic material to create a ...