Hearing your heartbeat while lying on your side is typically normal. According to Dr. Anthony Youn, a US surgeon, this sound is often caused by the carotid artery pressing against your pillow.

If imaging was obtained, the contralateral normal carotid arteries in the patients with CaW and atherosclerosis were also included for analysis. Each carotid artery was classified as CaW, ...

This article was originally posted Dec. 8, 2014. It has been updated. There are many things in medicine that are merely a matter of preference or style. How to check a patient’s pulse is not one ...

jhmi.edu Background Flow diverters are increasingly used for the treatment of intracranial aneurysms. Understanding cavernous internal carotid artery (cICA) tortuosity may help to predict procedural ...

Nevertheless, carotid IMT only measures one wall of the artery, whereas intravascular ... trials with statins suggest to me that the near normal carotid IMT of the population of the trial at ...

[10] The carotid artery pulse is classically parvus et tardus: weak and late. Finally the second heart sound may be reduced ... calcification of the normal trileaflet valve; and rheumatic valve ...

Celiac artery compression syndrome, also known as median arcuate ligament syndrome ... The main symptoms are chronic abdominal pain that has lasted several months, abdominal pain after eating, weight ...

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which results in the artery being displaced to an area between the trachea (windpipe) and esophagus (the tube through which food passes, after swallowing). This can cause symptoms such as trouble ...