New study reveals alarming increase in cases of cervical artery dissection, a little-known but growing cause of stroke.

The left vertebral artery and the LIMA originate from the left subclavian artery and the presence of the subclavian artery stenosis may cause insufficient, even retrograde blood flow in these vessels, ...

A rundown of recent responses from the Philomath Police Department included a woman who was seriously injured when a vehicle ...

Quantification of carotid atherosclerosis is important in monitoring patients at risk of cardiovascular events and in evaluating therapies. High-resolution 3D carotid magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...

Introduction Vertebral artery (VA) dissection caused by swinging a golf club is extremely rare, and only a few cases of dissection have been reported. [1–3] Sudden head rotation in swinging a ...

Shoko M. Yamada, MD; Yoshiaki Goto, MD; Mineko Murakami, MD; Katsumi Hoya, MD; Akira Matsuno, MD Disclosures Clin J Sport Med. 2014;24 (2):155-157.

Despite the equivocal data there has been increasing use of carotid stenting in the United States. Investigators using administrative data on more than 250,000 carotid revascularization procedures in ...

Objective Low association between cardiac symptoms and coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with inflammatory joint diseases (IJD) demands for objective markers to improve cardiovascular risk ...

Since the 2006 update of the American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) guidelines on secondary prevention, 1 important evidence from clinical trials has emerged ...