CREST-2 may end routine CEA for asymptomatic carotid stenosis, but its message is nuanced, raising new questions about ...

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 . Among Medicare beneficiaries with carotid artery stenosis, stenting and endarterectomy had comparable risk for ...

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 ...

Since its inception, carotid artery stenting for patients with carotid artery stenosis has been underutilized in the United States, mainly due to limited reimbursement. Now, 10-year results of the ...

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 ...

Carotid artery stenting (CAS) incurs greater expense but provides no better clinical outcomes than carotid endarterectomy (CEA), according to a retrospective single-center analysis published online ...

Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is the standard procedure for measuring carotid artery stenosis (CAS), and other imaging techniques are validated against DSA. This invasive imaging modality ...

Carotid endarterectomy may carry better in-hospital outcomes than carotid stenting, regardless of patient age or sex, suggests a retrospective analysis published online October 9, 2014, ahead of print ...