CREST-2 may end routine CEA for asymptomatic carotid stenosis, but its message is nuanced, raising new questions about ...
Carotid artery stenting combined with medical therapy demonstrated a significantly lower stroke risk compared to intensive medical therapy alone in patients with severe asymptomatic carotid stenosis ...
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 ...
Improvements in medical therapy, carotid-artery stenting, and carotid endarterectomy call into question the preferred management of asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Whether adding revascularization to ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Each year, more than 100,000 patients who have experienced a stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA), also known as a “mini-stroke,” undergo a carotid artery stenting procedure to ...
9 Univ Rouen Normandie, Normandie Univ, Inserm U1245 and CHU Rouen, Department of Radiology, F-76000 Rouen, France This article presents a practical anatomical atlas of the arterial neuroanatomy of ...
Purpose: To verify the hypothesis that length and inclination angle of the styloid process may lead to cerebral infarction related to carotid artery dissection through comparison of the length and ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A carotid stenting system had few adverse events for patients with carotid artery stenosis. The stroke rate was ...
A 54-year-old man presented with acute right neck and ear pain, lower motor facial nerve (FN) palsy and Horner’s syndrome (HS.) This followed a fall with neck hyperextension. MRI and MRA revealed a ...
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 ...
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