For patients with iliac artery blockages, treatment with a self-expanding stent provides better protection against restenosis at 12 months and no reduction in safety compared with a balloon-expandable ...

The treatment of patients with peripheral arterial disease has evolved tremendously since the early 1960s, when Charles Dotter first successfully revascularized a superficial femoral artery occlusion ...

Artery narrowing is very uncommon in other-wise healthy young people. However, male cyclists were probably the first competitive athletes to be identified to have narrowing of external iliac artery, ...

ANY artery in the body has the potential of dilating abnormally if weakness develops in the artery wall. If this dilatation is of significant degree, the lesion is described as an aneurysm. If the ...

AMONG the problems that occasionally confront the vascular surgeon are acute arterial thromboses. Such thrombi in the superficial femoral artery, superimposed on atherosclerosis, often lead to ...

Many jobs carry occupational risks and sport is no different. For pro cyclists, crashing hard on tarmac is the obvious one, but when it comes to health, iliac artery endofibrosis (IAE) is another.