Keeping blood pressure under control is critical. For patients who have been unable to successfully maintain that control, there is a new, cutting-edge surgical procedure available at The Heart Center ...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a prevalent condition in the United States, affecting nearly half of adults and significantly increasing the risk of heart ...

Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

More than 50% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) develop lupus nephritis (LN) during the disease, which may ...

About half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure and too few have it under control. Now some patients who've tried ...

The Paradise catheter system uses ultrasound energy to achieve similar results ... particularly the renal sympathetic nerves that run along the walls of the renal arteries. These nerves carry signals ...

Doppler ultrasound to assess radial artery patency will be performed at 30 days ... previous CABG surgery or previous stroke/transient ischaemic attack will also be collected. Renal function will be ...

Left common femoral (CFA) artery 5-F access was obtained with ultrasound guidance and micropuncture technique ... coronary artery disease, and end-stage renal disease after renal transplant. Three ...

A patient with a history of liver transplantation 5 years previously was admitted to the ward for investigation and management of renal ... artery disease was admitted with dyspnoea and a left-sided ...

renal and hepatic dysfunction. In addition, the measurement of these variables requires the use of invasive devices, such as a central venous catheter for CVP and a pulmonary artery catheter for PAOP.

In patients with LEAD, intravascular ultrasound guidance is associated with improved outcomes following endovascular treatment.