Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Neither medical management nor revascularization reversed cognitive decline in patients with significant ...

“Whether patients undergo a procedure to remove plaque in the carotid artery, known as a carotid endarterectomy, stenting to insert a flexible tube to hold open the narrowed part of the artery, or a ...

On behalf of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), Ali AbuRahma, MD, Past President of SVS; Marc Schermerhorn, MD, Past Chair, SVS Document Oversight Committee; and Keith Calligaro, MD, President, ...

Improvements in medical therapy, carotid-artery stenting, and carotid endarterectomy call into question the preferred management of asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Whether adding revascularization to ...

Most carotid-artery stenting or endarterectomy is done for asymptomatic cases. The large CREST-2 randomized trial now shows that endarterectomy holds no stroke and mortality benefit over intensive ...

Country star Ronnie McDowell is scheduled to undergo surgery weeks after suffering a stroke during a performance at the Summer Solstice Music Festival. His son, Tyler McDowell, tells Rolling Stone ...

Last month, the CGuard Prime Carotid Stent System from Miami, FL-based InspireMD became the first FDA-approved mesh-covered carotid stent for stroke prevention. The pivotal trial for PMA approval ...

Carotid artery is the blood vessel that supplies oxygen-rich blood to the brain. Stenosis of this artery leads to impaired blood flow to the brain and altered blood-brain barrier properties, which can ...

ABSTRACT: Carotid disease is a cause of approximately 20% - 30% of all strokes, so the treatment of symptomatic carotid artery stenosis is an important method in secondary stroke prevention. The first ...

Optimized medical therapy (OMT) is as effective as surgery for carotid revascularization in reducing stroke risk in the majority of patients with carotid artery stenosis, results of a planned interim ...

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 ...