Archie et al [14] reported 9% of patients had severe (>70%) stenosis of the external carotid artery following carotid endarterectomy; and found that the repair of severely stenosed or occluded ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Carotid artery stenting and carotid endarterectomy are comparable for long-term stroke prevention, but each ...

Stenting may be an alternative to open endarterectomy for the treatment of carotid artery stenosis. The Endarterectomy versus Angioplasty in Patients with Symptomatic Severe Carotid Stenosis (EVA-3S) ...

Carotid endarterectomy can benefit the majority of patients with severe carotid artery stenosis. However, the therapeutic ef-fects of this technique in patients with symptomatic internal carotid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Carotid endarterectomy was associated with a twofold higher risk for death but a significantly lower risk for ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Stroke affects more than 700,000 people in the United States per year. A blockage of a blood vessel is responsible for about 80 percent of strokes. Carotid endarterectomy is the most ...

In the long run, carotid artery stenting (CAS) and endarterectomy (CEA) provide similar stroke protection, according to follow-up of the randomized EVA-3S trial published online July 31, 2014, ahead ...

After more than a decade of clinical trials specifically comparing the two approaches, the choice of carotid artery stenting (CAS) or endarterectomy (CEA) for patients with asymptomatic or symptomatic ...

Aims: The effect of carotid endarterectomy on the patency of the external carotid artery is unknown. We conducted a retrospective study to evaluate the long-term changes in the external carotid artery ...