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A flexible tube called a catheter is threaded through the artery in the groin or wrist to the heart arteries. For those with known coronary artery disease, this ...
If the arteries are narrowed, treatment choices depend on many factors, including: How bad the coronary artery disease is. Symptoms, such as chest pain and ...
Arterial function tests. These tests assess the health of the blood vessels that carry blood from your heart to your body (arteries). They will look at the ...
This heart chamber pumps blood into the lungs through a large vessel called the pulmonary artery. The blood flows through the pulmonary artery into smaller ...
A coronary artery spasm is a temporary squeezing of one or more arteries that supply blood to the heart. The condition causes chest pain, called angina.
Heart with tortuous coronary arteries · Blood tests. Certain heart proteins slowly leak into the blood after heart damage from a heart attack. · Electrocardiogram ...
Claudication is usually a symptom of peripheral artery disease, in which the arteries that supply blood to the arms or legs, usually the legs, are narrowed. The ...
An ischemic stroke occurs when a blood clot, known as a thrombus, blocks or plugs an artery leading to the brain. A blood clot often forms in arteries damaged ...
Statins are a drugs that help lower cholesterol, a key factor in the formation of plaques in arteries. ... artery. Once the artery is widened, the health ...
The Mayo Clinic Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) Research Program studies ties between SCAD and abnormalities in other arteries.
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