Because it causes tissue damage and tissue death in the legs, feet, and toes, PAD is implicated in 150,000 lower-limb ...

Cardiovascular disease being the first cause of mortality worldwide, and hypertension being the most prevalent cardiovascular risk factor, 1 it is of paramount importance to study the precise ...

Peripheral Vascular Disease, PVD for short, is a circulatory condition involving blood vessels outside the heart and brain, mostly limbs, arms, and legs. PVD results from narrowing or blockage of ...

THIS report considers peripheral vascular disease under the two main divisions of diseases of the arteries and diseases of the veins. Diseases of the Arteries The surgical treatment of peripheral ...

Modifying the risk of peripheral arterial disease (or PAD)—with healthy lifestyle changes—remains vital to one's health, note researchers in a recent issue of the Journal of Vascular and ...

After years of frequent hospital visits, Danielle Slater was given a choice: her leg or her life. "I was like, 'Chop it off. Get rid of it', you know?" she says. "I had six or seven surgeries in a ...

Liberant is indicated for the removal of fresh, soft emboli or thrombi from the vessels of the peripheral arterial and venous ...

Diabetes often announces itself quietly, but the damage it causes to our blood vessels can be far from silent. Among the many ...

There may be an association between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to a review published online Nov. 30 in Rheumatology International. A new study by ...