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If you have not heard of peripheral artery disease, or PAD, you are not alone. While clinicians and health organizations have made headway in raising ...
A Mayo Clinic vascular surgeon talks about how to identify peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in your patients, PAD therapy at Mayo Clinic and when to refer.
That makes it hard for enough blood to flow through the arteries. Sometimes a piece of plaque can break loose and form a blood clot. The clot may cause a heart ...
If the arteries are narrowed, treatment choices depend on many factors, including: How bad the coronary artery disease is. Symptoms, such as chest pain and ...
Heart valve defects and congenital heart disease. A blocked artery, called arterial occlusion. Decreased blood circulation into your legs, called peripheral ...
March 26, 2010 Dear Mayo Clinic: One of my dearest friends has a grandmother who has 100 percent blockage in one of the arteries in her neck and 75 percent ...
What causes these arteries to become inflamed isn't known, but it's thought to involve abnormal attacks on artery walls by the immune system. Certain genes and ...
... arteries reduce the amount of blood that reaches the limbs. The type of blocked artery you describe can be treated in several ways. The specific treatment ...
In coronary artery disease, one or more of the heart (coronary) arteries are blocked. This is usually due to cholesterol-containing deposits called plaques.
The pain is caused by too little blood flow to the legs or arms. Claudication is usually a symptom of peripheral artery disease, in which the arteries that ...
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