For decades, medical practitioners have primarily relied on the degree of carotid narrowing (stenosis) to assess the risk of stroke and determine the best treatment options. However, mounting ...

Background Treatment options for cervical internal carotid ... of intravenous thrombolysis. For patients not undergoing eCAS, antithrombotics are usually started 24 hours after EVT (typically aspirin ...

Objective To investigate the technical safety and outcome of in-stent restenosis (ISR) prevention with drug-eluting balloon (DEB) in patients with postirradiated carotid ... The iodinated contrast ...

This study assessed the usefulness of the intravenous (transpulmonary) contrast medium SH U 508 A in improving the characterization and quantification of severe internal carotid stenosis. We examined ...

Carotid hemodynamics normalized immediately after both patching and stenting and remained relatively stable thereafter up to 12 months. No statistically elevated flow velocities (in the absence of ...

It is a minimally invasive treatment for carotid artery stenosis. The carotid arteries are major arteries that run up either side of the neck, providing blood to the brain. Their vital role as the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Significant differences in vessel density, foveal avascular zone area and RNFL thickness were reported ...

Researchers sought to determine the detection rate of asymptomatic carotid stenosis and atrial fibrillation via targeted screening of patients with increased CV risk. In patients with high ...

A study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of carotid endarterectomy vs usual care for long-term stroke prevention in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis. There is a slight ...

Objective: Prior studies have shown that plaque inflammation on FDG-PET and the symptomatic carotid atheroma inflammation lumen-stenosis (SCAIL ... were requested to fast for a minimum of 6 h before ...