Sentence examples for leg artery from inspiring English sources

For example, the device maker EV3 has trials started in both Europe and the United States for use of its EverFlex biliary stent in a major leg artery.

She was a recovering opioid addict who had undergone open heart surgery to replace an aortic valve in September 2015 and leg artery surgery in November 2015 before being jailed for drug convictions in February 2016.

Lately, I've noticed a surfeit of patients coming to my office (internal medicine) having undergone nonindicated screening exams that now "require" follow-up at regular intervals with further tests and scans (carotid scans, leg artery scans and so on).

JET'S LEG ARTERY CUT The Winnipeg rookie defenseman Zach Redmond had surgery to repair a sliced artery in his right leg after a teammate accidentally stepped on him during the Jets' morning skate Thursday.

After a catheter is inserted in a leg artery and threaded up to an obstruction in either of the two carotid arteries in the neck, a balloon is inflated to clear the vessel and a metal mesh stent is deployed to keep it propped open.

It is put in place inside the patient's damaged valve through a catheter that is threaded through a leg artery to the aorta, the heart's main blood vessel.

Individuals were excluded if their ABI was >1.3, indicating poorly compressible leg arteries and inability to gauge arterial perfusion accurately.

An ABI of 1.5 or higher is consistent with poorly compressible leg arteries and is unreliable for gauging arterial perfusion accurately.

I don't have heart disease, but I do have blockages in my leg arteries; should I take aspirin?

Over the course of the three hours, the researchers monitored the blood flow in the volunteers' leg arteries.

The drug is typically only used to treat the symptoms of blockages in leg arteries to improve how far people with vascular disease can walk without pain.