ELKO — Life Line Screening will hold stroke and heart disease screenings at First Presbyterian Church of Elko on March 1. The company said appointments must be reserved ahead of time at 800-772-8243.

Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

February is American Heart Month. And while you may think yours is in great shape, it doesn’t hurt to make sure. “It’s a good ...

Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds), By Procedure Type (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation (TMVI), ...

Migraine with brainstem aura or MBA (formerly known as basilar migraines) are headaches that start in the lower part of the brain, called the brainstem. They cause symptoms such as dizziness ...

This study demonstrates that deep learning methods can automatically segment and detect CaW from CTA images. It also shows that the strategy of first segmenting the carotid artery and then segmenting ...

Take something as mundane as an extra blood vessel in our arms, which going by current trends could be commonplace within just a few generations. An artery that temporarily runs down the center of our ...

Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is an alternative treatment for patients with carotid artery stenosis who are not eligible for carotid endarterectomy. Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after CAS aims to ...

Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is widely used to treat carotid artery stenosis (CAS). However, the effects of CEA on unilateral CAS‐induced cognitive impairment and the underlying mechanism remain ...