Every time your heart beats, it pumps blood through a complex network of blood vessels. These blood vessels, which control blood flow, include arteries, veins, and capillaries. If any of these blood ...

Uncontrolled bleeding represents one of the most alarming medical situations people encounter. While minor cuts and scrapes typically stop bleeding within minutes, persistent bleeding despite proper ...

April 6, 2011 (Chicago, Illinois) — An initial session of pelvic arterial embolization (PAE) is safe and effective in 86.2% of patients with postpartum hemorrhage. Ji Hoon Shin, MD, associate ...

Arterial ulcers and venous ulcers are chronic wounds with different causes and appearances. Arterial ulcers occur due to arterial disease. Venous ulcers develop as a consequence of chronic venous ...

The hypogastric artery, also called the iliac artery, provides blood flow to the organs in your pelvis. You have an abdominal aorta, which is a large artery that travels down into your pelvis, where ...

Winrevair, also known as sotatercept-csrk, is a medicine used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which causes high blood pressure in the arteries that go from your heart to your lungs.

A torn artery and a pulsating fountain of blood usually meant one thing to Army surgeons in World War I—amputation. In World War II, it may not mean any such thing. In the American Journal of Surgery ...