On the heels of announcing that it was the first in the Lehigh Valley to offer a new non-invasive heart test, St. Luke’s University Health Network said it is now also offering a new minimally invasive ...

On examination, the patient had a full complement of lower-limb pulses. A lower-limb arterial duplex scan detected bilateral popliteal artery occlusion on forced plantar flexion. As there were ...

During the study period there were a total of 47,249 major lower limb amputations due to peripheral arterial disease, ...

In all patients, noninvasive studies were used to confirm the presence of hemodynamically critical lower limb arterial disease. [13] Popliteal flow velocity was measured using duplex ...

Of that number, 45.3% had a stroke, 19.5% had a critical blockage in the lower limb arteries (limb ischemia), 17.1% had coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG), 17.5% had a heart attack (myocardial ...

St. Luke’s physicians are offering a new minimally invasive procedure that offers hope to persons facing likely amputation of ...

Patients with predominantly cranial vs isolated extracranial GCA phenotypes present with different patterns of arterial involvement on 18F-FDG PET-CT scans.

“Lower extremity ... the affected limb. Surgeons may perform bypasses, and in some cases, an operation called deep vein arterialisation (DVA), in which they connect an artery with a vein to ...

Even if his lower left limb has been amputated ... “Dr. Lapuz ordered that I undergo an arterial duplex scan to check whether I could have a bypass instead. However, based on the duplex scan ...

St. Luke's University Health Network physicians are offering a new minimally invasive procedure that offers hope to persons facing likely amputation of a lower extremity due to a permanently blocked ...