People with previously asymptomatic carotid stenosis account for a large proportion of stroke cases, but identifying those who are most at risk and require surgery is both difficult and ...

Laparotomy on a 64-year-old dehydrated man showed metastatic carcinoma of the stomach with perforation and gastric-outlet obstruction. Surgical repair of the gastric perforation was performed. To ...

Thus, the clinical manifestation depends on the number of organs affected, the composition of the emboli, and the quantity of the embolus expelled from the atherosclerotic plaque. An isolated ...

Understanding the early signs and causes of a stroke may help you save your life in the future. Here is what you need to know ...

You never think it will happen to you, but it might. Apple Watches are full of life-saving features making them more than ...

It has calculated that serious complications - including pulmonary embolus, fat necrosis and abscess - that require time in hospital can cost more than £13,000 per patient. Those affected require ...

The treatment of choice for proximal venous thrombosis is anticoagulation. In situations where anticoagulation is absolutely contraindicated or when anticoagulation has failed in the face of an ...

The Thirlwall public inquiry has commenced today, looking at how Lucy Letby was able to continue her infant killing spree at ...

Fiona Foreman, 59, of an address in Kidlington, died at the John Radcliffe Hospital on August 22 this year. An inquest opening at Oxford Coroners Court on Tuesday (September 3) heard that she had ...

The court heard one of the means by which the Child E was killed and Child M was harmed, was by having air injected into the bloodstream - what the doctors call an air embolus. He said all the ...

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, today announced long-term overall survival (OS) data ...

Positive opinion granted for KEYTRUDA plus chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of adult patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial carcinoma who are candidates for systemic therapy, ...