CEREBROVASCULAR disease ranked third, after heart disease and cancer, as a cause of death in the United States in 1959. Almost 37,000 of these deaths occurred in persons between thirty-eight and sixty ...

Aberrant subclavian artery anomalies represent the most common congenital variant of the aortic arch, often manifesting as an unusual origin or course of the subclavian artery. Such anomalies may be ...

CEREBROVASCULAR insufficiency due to subclavian-artery occlusion is more frequent, more simply diagnosed and more easily treated than generally recognized. Only recently has attention been focused on ...

The left and right internal thoracic artery (LITA and RITA, respectively), a branch of the subclavian artery, is often used for reconstruction of coronary arteries. Long-term results of this treatment ...

A 75-year-old woman with acute dyspnea was diagnosed with suspected acute pulmonary embolism (APE). Initially, she was stable, with blood pressure (BP) of 135/80 mm Hg, tachycardia of 105 bpm, and ...

A 60-year-old white female with a known diagnosis of NF1 was evaluated in the emergency department of an outside hospital with a 3-day history of neck pain and swelling, associated with severe ...

A 55-year-old man presented to an outside hospital with acute-onset chest pain, interscapular back pain, and progressive abdominal pain. His medical history revealed an abdominal aortic aneurysm, ...