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... arteries. Angioplasty involves temporarily inserting and inflating a tiny balloon where your artery is clogged to help widen the artery. Most stents used ...
If a blood clot plugs one of these arteries or blood flow decreases enough, the heart muscle — starved for oxygen — dies and a heart attack occurs. http://www.
June 24, 2011. Dear Mayo Clinic: I recently went to the ER with strong chest pain and was told what I may have experienced is coronary artery spasm.
Arterial function tests. These tests assess the health of the blood vessels that carry blood from your heart to your body (arteries). They will look at the ...
Secondhand smoke makes the arteries not able to widen. This condition is called endothelial dysfunction. It's associated with many forms of cardiovascular ...
Carotid artery disease. Departments and specialties. Mayo Clinic has one of the ... arteries. Related work assessing CREST data yields insights into the ...
In an angioplasty, a surgeon threads a catheter to the carotid arteries through an artery in the groin. A balloon is then inflated to expand the narrowed artery ...
... arteries in control patients (P = 0.005). In arteries with IPH , there was no difference in the mean degree of carotid artery stenosis between the RAO and ...
Buerger disease is a rare disease of the arteries and veins in the arms and legs. In Buerger disease — also called thromboangiitis obliterans — blood ...
The medicine relaxes heart arteries so blood can flow more easily. Blood pressure medicines. Some blood pressure medicines also relax and widen blood vessels.
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