The brachial artery is the chief artery supplying blood to the arm, forearm, and hand. It supplies the tissues of the upper limb with oxygen and nutrients. Two terminal brachial artery branches ...

One hundred seventy-two patients underwent 184 procedures over a 20-year period ( Table 1). Acute arm ischemia was responsible for over two-thirds of upper limb revascularization procedures. The ...

MUCH has been written about occlusive disease involving the great vessels of the aortic arch since the first reports on this subject by Savory1 in 1856 and Broadbent2 in 1875. This clinical entity, ...

Then, after a week, the pain exploded, branching out into her neck, jaw and upper arm. ... More tests showed that her left circumflex artery "had a 99% blockage." ...

[4,5] Thromboembolic disease, [1,6,7,8,9,10,11] vascular trauma, [3,12,13,14,15] and iatrogenic injury [16,17] are well recognized as common causes of acute upper limb ischemia. Subclavian artery ...