Medically reviewed by Anisha Shah, MD Key Takeaways The abdominal aorta carries blood from the heart to organs in the lower body.It splits into the right and left common iliac arteries near the pelvis ...

For patients with iliac artery blockages, treatment with a self-expanding stent provides better protection against restenosis at 12 months and no reduction in safety compared with a balloon-expandable ...

DUBLIN -- Medtronic plc today announced that its Protégé(TM) GPS(TM) self-expanding peripheral stent system has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of ...

Several balloon-expandable stents have been used in the iliac artery, however, they have not had a primary indication for iliac stenting. The Express® LD iliac premounted stent system (Boston ...

Vascular. 2008;16(6):310-315. From the clinical notes, the following were recorded: age, sex, past medical history, smoking history, symptoms, operative procedure performed, operation duration to the ...

Artery narrowing is very uncommon in other-wise healthy young people. However, male cyclists were probably the first competitive athletes to be identified to have narrowing of external iliac artery, ...

AMONG the problems that occasionally confront the vascular surgeon are acute arterial thromboses. Such thrombi in the superficial femoral artery, superimposed on atherosclerosis, often lead to ...

Conglomerate W.L. Gore & Associates announced FDA approval of its Excluder Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis for the treatment of common iliac artery aneurysms or aortoiliac aneurysms. The device is used in ...