Carotid artery disease, also called carotid artery stenosis, occurs when the carotid arteries, the main blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the brain, become narrowed. The narrowing of the ...

Recent studies have demonstrated that there is a loss of aortic compliance in patients after coarctation repair ... influenced by the stiffness of large arteries, is the most common subtype ...

The most common cause of carotid artery narrowing is a buildup of plaque in the arteries due to multiple risk factors such as smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, family history and ...

in the presence of a large PDA where diastolic runoff into the pulmonary arteries is significant, the continuous flow during diastole seen in coarctation may be absent. In addition, as the PDA ...