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Pervasive stigma around cannabis use is leading some ER doctors to overdiagnose a rare marijuana-related syndrome.

A woman in her 40s with a history of a subarachnoid haemorrhage complicated by ischaemic infarcts presented with 1 week of ...

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The characteristics of combat trauma to blood vessels include deep and widespread damage to the vascular wall, often ...

The new lung cancer screening program needs to be independently evaluated to keep it on track, and to minimise the harms.

Learn about aneurysms, their causes, symptoms, and treatment options to understand this potentially life-threatening ...

ANEURYSM of the aorta in children is rare. Aneurysm of the abdominal aorta at birth of a living infant has not been reported. In the following case a large congenital aneurysm of the abdominal aort ...

Authored by - Dr Niranjan Hiremath, senior consultant, cardiovascular and aortic surgeon and surgical lead, Indraprastha ...

Automatic calcification detection in abdominal aorta consists of a set of computer vision techniques to quantify the amount of calcium that is found around this artery. Knowing that information, it is ...

People may feel a pulse in their abdominal aorta, a large artery that runs through the stomach area. People may feel pulsing in the stomach during pregnancy or when pressing on the abdomen. It can ...