Recently, a friend's mother passed away. A gentle, dignified woman who complained of abdominal pain for just a day, nothing alarming, or dramatic. Before the doctors could even form a tentative ...

Mesenteric ischemia results from insufficient blood flow to the intestines and has a high mortality rate, primarily due to delayed diagnosis. It is classified into acute (AMI) and chronic (CMI) forms, ...

Objective: To describe angiographic findings of the superior rectal artery, its branches, and anatomical variations in the hemorrhoidal plexus in patients undergoing rectal artery embolization for ...

A billion years ago, if you’d looked out from the top of Michigan’s now densely forested Summit Peak, you’d have seen a fiery, volcano-lit battleground. Steaming fissures, molten rocks, and lava flows ...

THE use of translumbar aortography is sufficiently widespread so that a considerable literature has appeared in which indications, technic and complications have been thoroughly discussed. It is ...

There is not enough evidence to compare the benefits and harms of the two main options for treating people with spontaneous dissection of the mesenteric artery (SIDSMA). Blood vessels are made up of ...

Correspondence to Dr Bao Tran, Cardiology, St Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA; Bao.Tran3{at}CommonSpirit.org To be familiar with tools in the diagnosis of peripheral artery ...

Nutcracker syndrome is a rare condition that happens when the vein that drains your left kidney gets squeezed between big blood vessels in your belly. It can be very painful, but it's usually not ...

Ischemic colitis reduces blood flow to the colon or large intestine. Mesenteric ischemia is a reduction in blood flow to the small intestine due to the narrowing of the arteries. Both conditions are ...

THE diagnosis of pancreatic neoplasms is difficult because of the inaccessibility of the organ to the usual means of examination. Conventional methods of diagnostic, radiography are helpful in only a ...

On a 750-mile road trip through the heart of sauna culture in the United States, a writer searches for the perfect combination of steam, heat and cold. The Takka Superior sauna in Eagle Harbor, Mich., ...