Kashmir’s premier tertiary care hospital, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), today achieved a milestone by successfully performing the first direct vascular bypass surgery between ...

Doctors can check circulation in the feet by comparing blood pressure in the toe with that in the arm. The result is known as ...

Trends point to more and more PCIs being performed via the wrist, but the US still trails behind other countries.

An alternative diagnostic method could improve early detection and treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to ...

Objective Ultrasonography is crucial for diagnosing giant cell arteritis (GCA); however, training opportunities are rare. This study tested the reliability of ultrasonography findings and measurements ...

Background: A number of centres are now running fast track pathways for diagnosis and management of Giant cell arteritis with ultrasound as the first port of call for diagnosis1. Temporal artery ...

Invasive temporal artery biopsy typically performed under anesthesia itself has a sensitivity estimated to be 70‐90%, albeit a specificity around 99% (3). Other tests including temporal artery ...

The objective was to provide a clinical setup for photoacoustic imaging (PAI) of the temporal artery in humans and to describe the challenges encountered and methods of overcoming them. The temporal ...

The Exergen Temporal Artery thermometer is easy to use and gives instant results. Discover why we liked it in our review.

In the TABUL study (The Role of Ultrasound Compared to Biopsy of Temporal Arteries in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Giant Cell Arteritis), 14 pathologists evaluated 30 TABs from patients with ...

Temporal artery ultrasound may effectively serve as a first-line diagnostic tool for giant cell arteritis, potentially replacing the need for invasive biopsies among patients with high clinical ...