Carotid intervention (endarterectomy or stenting, depending on the clinical setting) is recommended generally in symptomatic patients with stenosis of more than 70% and in selected asymptomatic low ...

Carotid stenosis, or carotid artery disease, is a narrowing or blockage of the carotid arteries. Located in the side of your neck, your left and right carotids are two large arteries that carry ...

Ischemic stroke remains one of the leading causes of death and long-term disability worldwide, with narrowing of the carotid artery due to atherosclerosis contributing to up to 30% of all cases. For ...

Carotid stenosis is also known as carotid disease and carotid atherosclerosis. The cerebrovascular neurosurgeons at Baylor Medicine and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas, specialize ...

Will Carotid Stenting Get a Larger Slice of the Pie? CAS is a minimally invasive alternative to carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for the treatment of carotid stenosis, an important cause of stroke.

For years the treatment of carotid artery stenosis was endarterectomy, surgically removing the plaque that is obstructing the carotid artery. More recently, another procedure has been used to open ...

"It has the potential to make carotid endarterectomy safer with a higher benefit for patients with carotid stenosis compared with the best medical treatment, especially in patients with ...

In the Netherlands, about 2,000 people with carotid artery stenosis are operated on every year after they have had a stroke. Thirty years ago, large studies showed that an operation in which a ...

Carotid artery disease, also called carotid artery stenosis, occurs when the carotid arteries, the main blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the brain, become narrowed. The narrowing of the ...

Carotid stenosis is an important cause of transient ischemic attacks and stroke. With the introduction of cerebral angiography in the 1920s, carotid-artery disease was found among persons with stroke.

Current risk assessment guidelines for ischemic stroke may underestimate patients with mild carotid stenosis. A Japanese multicenter study found that unstable plaque—particularly intraplaque ...