Silver Spring, MD-- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a stent graft system that provides patients with small arteries the option of less invasive surgery to repair their potentially ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Washington – Vice President Dick Cheney had successful surgery Saturday to repair aneurysms on the back of both knees. He was alert and comfortable after the ...

A new study compared open surgical repair with a catheter-based procedure and found that the less invasive endovascular aortic repair has clear benefits for most patients. Each year, nearly 40,000 ...

Aortic aneurysms develop when the wall of the aorta weakens, causing it to bulge and form a balloon-like expansion. They can happen in the chest (thoracic aortic aneurysms) or, more commonly, below ...

THE complications of aneurysm of the abdominal aorta have frequently been discussed, but sudden occlusion has not been included among them. Spontaneous rupture into the retroperitoneal space, 1,2 the ...

The popliteal artery is situated behind the knee and conveys blood to the lower leg and foot. An aneurysm is an abnormal swelling in the wall of an artery. Endovascular repair of popliteal aneurysm ...