The carotid arteries branch off from the aorta (the largest artery in the body) a short distance from the ... the right and left internal carotid arteries and the right and left external carotid ...

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 ...

The image to the right (Figure 1) shows an image of a carotid artery in the neck where it divides into the artery of the external carotid artery (smaller vessel on the right) and the internal carotid ...

A case study on intravascular lithotripsy for the treatment of calcified carotid disease to demonstrate technical feasibility ...

In the Netherlands, about 2,000 people with carotid artery stenosis are operated on every year after they have had a stroke. Thirty years ago, large studies showed that an operation in which a ...

People with plaque in the blood vessels of their neck have a higher amount of tiny plastic particles in those vessels compared to people with healthy arteries.

According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, carotid artery disease is responsible for up to one-third of all ...