Sentences with phrase «called peripheral artery»

A disease called peripheral artery disease, or PAD, causes blockages in your lower limbs preventing normal blood flow.

They focused on three different types of PVD: arterial disease in the lower extremities, called peripheral artery disease; carotid artery stenosis, which is blockage in the carotid arteries, the major blood vessels in the neck that supply blood to the brain, neck and face; and abdominal aortic aneurysm, an enlargement of the lower aorta, the major blood vessel that supplies blood to the body.

In addition to the stent, Dugas and colleagues are developing a balloon coated with the same compounds to treat blood flow blockages throughout the body called peripheral artery disease.

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Painful blockages of arteries in the legs — called peripheral arterial obstructive disease, or PAOD — are less familiar than the ones that cut off blood flow to the heart, but they can be just as dangerous.

December 5, 2017 — A study of older adults with peripheral artery disease showed that treadmill exercise for 12 weeks improved walking distance, but a drug called GM - CSF did not.