Young adults who've had kidney stones may also have an increased risk of clogged arteries, a new study says. This does not mean that one causes the other, but instead the two conditions might have ...

If you're among the hundreds of thousands of Americans with clogged kidney arteries, you might want to consider trying medicines before rushing into angioplasty to open them up. The pricey procedure ...

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More than 90% of the time, renal artery stenosis is caused by atherosclerosis, a process in which plaque made up of fats, cholesterol, and other materials builds up on the walls of the blood vessels, ...

Backstory<BR><BR>So it turns out that my MRI has disqualified me as a donor.<BR><BR>I wasn't able to talk to Doctor/Surgeon , but the transplant coordinator lady said that I had 3 arteries in one ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Have you ever heard of “fibromuscular dysplasia”? My mom was diagnosed with this blood disorder and understands that there is no known medical procedure to treat it. She claims this is ...

People who have coronary artery disease may have low blood flow through their heart. And as a result, may be at higher risk for heart attack or stroke. But now, a treatment that doctors have used for ...

At Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside in Jacksonville, an existing technology that uses "shock waves" to break up kidney stones has become a new technology to do the same thing to severe calcium ...

February is heart month, and the last few weekly columns have been about heart attacks — the most common cause of death in men and women in societies on a Western diet — rich in saturated fat from ...

Patients at Tomball Regional Hospital have an alternative in the treatment for clogged arteries outside the heart. The condition, known as peripheral arterial disease, affects approximately 12 million ...