Every time your heart beats, it pumps blood through a complex network of blood vessels. These blood vessels, which control blood flow, include arteries, veins, and capillaries. If any of these blood ...

Blood clots often form when lipid-rich plaques on the inner surface of arteries rupture and platelets aggregate at the site of injury. Cardiologists have now compared the effects of two new platelet ...

A torn artery and a pulsating fountain of blood usually meant one thing to Army surgeons in World War I—amputation. In World War II, it may not mean any such thing. In the American Journal of Surgery ...

Arterial filter (arterial blood filter) is suitable for heart surgical operation under extracorporeal circulation. In the artery, it can remove micro-aggregates and micro-emboli. Membrane Solutions ...

Taking the street drug Ecstasy could lead to a potentially fatal weakening and rupture of the spinal cord artery, doctors warn. Posterior spinal artery aneurysms -- a blood-filled swelling of the ...

Diabetes quietly inflicts damage on blood vessels, often leading to peripheral arterial disease (PAD), particularly in the ...

A CO2 blood test measures the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the blood serum, which is the liquid part of blood. It’s typically used to screen for kidney, respiratory, or metabolic disorders. You ...

Winrevair, also known as sotatercept-csrk, is a medicine used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which causes high blood pressure in the arteries that go from your heart to your lungs.