The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is ...

Arterial spasm complicating injury throttles a blood supply that needs to be at its best. Figure 4 Roentgenograms of Both Feet of a Patient with a Compound Fracture of Both Bones of the Right ...

When it occurs in the arteries that supply blood to the heart, doctors call it coronary artery disease (CAD). Although high blood pressure is common, it's not harmless.

The carotid arteries are two large blood vessels that supply oxygenated blood to the large, front part of the brain. This is where thinking, speech, personality, and sensory and motor functions ...

Mean arterial pressure (MAP) is a key reading doctors use to assess blood flow through your body. It’s related to your systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings but accounts for flow and ...

As their name suggests, arterial ulcers occur when arteries are unable to deliver enough oxygen-rich blood to tissue. Without the steady flow of oxygen and other nutrients, the tissue dies, and an ...

Ischemia and reperfusion can cause death and illness. The interruption of the arterial blood supply to a single organ or to multiple organs leads to hypoxic injury and cell death. In cases in ...

“The arteries take oxygenated blood from the heart and deliver it to the tissues, so if the conduit to get to the tissue is blocked, you lose the blood supply, and that portion below where that ...

Merck said that a phase-three study of its pulmonary arterial hypertension treatment met its primary endpoints.

An aneurysm, that is an abnormal bulge in a blood vessel wall, can also interfere with blood supply, as well as arteries narrowed by diseases such as tumors and Raynaud's phenomenon.