A 56-year-old man with a medical history of hypertension, congestive heart failure, heavy smoking, alcoholism, and a small abdominal aortic aneurysm developed a 10 cm sacular aneurysm arising from the ...

Subclavian steal phenomenon occurs when there is an obstruction of the subclavian artery proximal to the vertebral artery origin, which leads to reversal of blood flow in the vertebral artery. When ...

CEREBROVASCULAR disease ranked third, after heart disease and cancer, as a cause of death in the United States in 1959. Almost 37,000 of these deaths occurred in persons between thirty-eight and sixty ...

ARTERIAL reconstruction by thrombendarterectomy or grafting has been widely and successfully used for obliterative arteriosclerosis of the abdominal aorta and its branches. This has naturally ...