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Skate severs hockey player's artery Owen Sound Sun Times The cut required doctors to use a vein from his thigh to repair the damage to the artery . WILLY WATERTON/OWEN SOUND SUN TIMES/QMI AGENCY By Denis Langlois Doctors say another two minutes and Torey Hay would have died. A recreational men's hockey game ... |
Health Matters: Treating PVD the endovascular way NBC2 News "It's a minimally invasive procedure to treat all this pathology of vessels without making the cut," says Dr. BenMaamer. So instead of going under the knife, doctors went through an artery to clear the blockage. It was a brief surgery followed by an ... |