Sonolysis, an application of therapeutic ultrasound, reduced periprocedural cerebrovascular events during carotid endarterectomy. The safety profile of sonolysis was supported by a reported lack of ...

September 24, 2009 — A new study reviewing outcomes of more than 4000 patients undergoing cardiac surgery has found no direct causal relationship between significant carotid stenosis in these patients ...

Age, sex, and the time delay to surgery, in addition to the degree of stenosis, all affect the risk of stroke in patients receiving carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for symptomatic disease, according to a ...

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 ...

HONOLULU, HI—Results of carotid revascularization with either surgery or stenting stand up well over the long term, with very low rates of stroke through up to a decade of follow-up, new data from the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with asymptomatic severe carotid stenosis requiring intervention, there was no difference in 5-year ...

The cervical plexus block is a regional anaesthetic technique that has become increasingly established as an alternative to general anaesthesia for carotid endarterectomy. This procedure involves the ...

In the ACST-2 trial, non-procedural fatal or disabling stroke occurred in 2.5% of patients in both groups -- those assigned to carotid stenting and those who underwent carotid endarterectomy, for a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with carotid endarterectomy, transcarotid artery revascularization was associated with similar ...

Thousands of people have avoided strokes by opting for preemptive surgery that removes a coating of hard plaque from the inside of a vital neck artery. A new study finds that this surgery has ...

The increasingly common practice of preventing strokes by using wire mesh stents to prop open neck arteries is much riskier than the traditional method of surgically removing plaque and should be ...