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The lung artery and its branches can be very small or not exist in babies with pulmonary atresia. If these blood vessels are missing, other arteries form on the ...
Women are more likely than men to have a heart attack with no severe blockage in an artery (nonobstructive coronary artery disease). ... arteries with more small ...
Coronary artery disease is the most common type of heart disease in the U.S ... Plaque buildup narrows your coronary arteries, causing symptoms such as ...
A Mayo Clinic cardiologist explains how physicians identify peripheral artery disease and why early diagnosis is important.
The ankle-brachial index test is a quick, simple way to check for peripheral artery disease (PAD). The disease occurs when narrowed arteries reduce the blood ...
Vasodilators are medicines that open, also called dilate, blood vessels. Vasodilators affect the muscles in the walls of the arteries and veins.
This medicine widens the heart arteries. It can help control or relieve chest pain. Nitroglycerin is available as a pill, spray or patch. Beta blockers. These ...
This heart chamber pumps blood into the lungs through a large vessel called the pulmonary artery. The blood flows through the pulmonary artery into smaller ...
Why it's done. A CT coronary angiogram is mainly used to check for narrowed or blocked arteries in the heart (coronary artery disease). However, it ...
A popliteal artery aneurysm is an irregular bulge that occurs in the wall of the artery located behind the knee joint. It is a type of lower extremity aneurysm.
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