Applied during the surgery for people averaging 80% internal carotid artery stenosis, sonolysis resulted in reductions in 30-day: Combined ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA), and ...

Health First Medical Group Nurse Practitioner Joy Cruz detected a troubling sound in Fred's carotid artery called a bruit.

The most effective treatment for carotid artery stenosis is carotid endarterectomy (CEA). To date, randomized trials of this procedure versus best medical care have excluded patients aged 80 years ...

and common carotid artery (CCA) (3). There were 3 additional ICA lesions due to tumor infiltration, resulting in ICA occlusion (2) and long segment stenosis (1). Permanent vessel occlusion was ...

For patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy, sonolysis is safe and results in a significant reduction in the composite ...

Sixty-three percent were done for ≥ 70% asymptomatic carotid stenosis and 37% for strokes/transient ischemic attacks. Table 1 summarizes the clinical and demographic characteristics. The ...

AngioInsight is set to launch the clinical study to assess its AngioAI+ platform’s diagnostic accuracy in cardiovascular ...

A study led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego sheds new light on how a type of heart valve disease, called aortic valve stenosis, progresses differently in males and females.

They are very vascular mainly to help them fight infections and are supplied by the External Carotid artery. The nerve supply is from the 9th Cranial nerve. This nerve also supplies to certain ...

Whether the long-term benefit of stroke prevention when stenting is added to medical therapy (MT) over MT alone for symptomatic severe intracranial artery stenosis offsets the perioperative risks of ...

Joscelyne Kerr, second from left, with her family (Brain Tumour Research/PA) “Although 90% of it had been removed, the remainder – a crystallised mass – was wrapped around my carotid artery ...