Q: My cardiovascular surgeon tells me medicine has mostly abandoned shunt and stent placements as a solution to carotid artery plaques. Instead, doctors are returning to the older “Roto-Rooter” ...

Celiac artery bypass is a surgery to increase blood flow to the organs supplied by your celiac artery. It involves using a graft to create an alternative passage for your blood. Your celiac artery, or ...

For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery.

On the day before your treatment, you may be asked to withhold some of your blood pressure medication. This is so it does not interfere with the blood pressure response during the actual stent ...

Even at rest they hurt. They were also often cold and numb, sometimes tingled and were unnaturally shiny. Doctors had a difficult time detecting pulses in the diabetic’s feet. The 69-year-old retired ...

DANBURY — When 78-year-old Sandra Jellinghaus first discovered that her left carotid artery was 80 percent blocked, she worried she might be in for an “ordeal” of a surgery. The Watertown resident had ...

An atherectomy is a minimally invasive procedure to remove plaque buildup from an artery (blood vessel). Removing this plaque allows blood to flow more freely through the artery. An atherectomy treats ...

Patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiogram, a procedure used to assess blockages in the heart's arteries, had a significantly lower risk of major bleeding and death if their ...