The deep femoral artery supplies the thigh with blood. As an artery, it carries oxygenated (oxygen-rich) blood to the muscles of the thigh and upper leg in general; a vein will remove deoxygenated ...

The lateral femoral circumflex artery supplies oxygenated blood to the anterior (front) and middle portions of the thigh muscles. It typically branches off from the deep femoral artery, although in a ...

OWING to the advances in vascular surgery corrective operative procedures for arterial disease are now commonly performed. Accurate preoperative information is helpful to evaluate the type and extent ...

Imaging the femoral arteries may provide clinicians with a simpler way of assessing patients’ future risk of cardiovascular disease, a new study suggests. Compared with atherosclerotic plaques located ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The preferred revascularization strategy for symptomatic common femoral artery stenosis is unknown. Common ...

A new imaging technique for real 3D vascular ultrasound could become a key tool in strategies aimed at preventing cardiovascular disease in apparently healthy persons, complementing traditional risk ...

Artery narrowing is very uncommon in other-wise healthy young people. However, male cyclists were probably the first competitive athletes to be identified to have narrowing of external iliac artery, ...