LOS ANGELES Listening to the neck is something many physicians routinely do, but what are doctors checking for? They're listening for a "whooshing" sound which indicates blood trying to get pass a ...

Doctors look for tiny clues to suggest patients might not be as healthy as they look. One way is to listen for a carotid bruit. It's an abnormal sound doctors can hear through a stethoscope while ...

THE recent literature has called attention to the increasing number of cases of hypertension due to unilateral renal-artery disease. A wide array of vascular abnormalities have been described, and ...

SOCIOECONOMIC considerations, and the availability of satisfactory surgical procedures for the correction of significant cardiovascular lesions, have increased the need for careful clinical assessment ...