The human brain has no conventional lymph nodes, no obvious drainage pipes. For most of medical history, scientists assumed ...

DESPITE general interest in the physiology of the carotid circulation of man, there is little precise information about blood flow through these vessels. Neurosurgeons have long been accustomed to ...

Long-term follow-up of patients who have undergone CABG surgery with radial artery grafts instead of saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) offers reassurance that forearm blood flow is preserved, with no ...

The longest postoperative follow-up thus far of radial artery grafts in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery speaks to the long-term safety of this oft-overlooked conduit ...

The heart does not experience the natural world as scenery. It experiences it as biology. This is why protecting nature and ...

Type 2 diabetes can turn immune cells that help with tissue repair and anti-inflammatory responses into triggers of chronic ...

Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES) is a rare condition affecting the artery in the back of the knee. It causes pain in the lower legs during exercise. The popliteal artery runs behind the ...

Coronary steal syndrome is a condition in which blood is taken from a narrowed artery in the heart and rerouted to — in other words, stolen by — other blood vessels. This condition can occur when some ...

Dutch cyclist Fabio Jakobsen, a former Tour de France stage winner and European champion, will undergo surgery after being diagnosed with iliac artery flow limitations in his legs. Jakobsen's team ...