The most effective treatment for carotid artery stenosis is carotid endarterectomy (CEA). To date, randomized trials of this procedure versus best medical care have excluded patients aged 80 years ...

Heparin is the anticoagulant of choice to prevent thrombosis distally to the clamped internal carotid artery during ... Dextran is commonly used after endarterectomy to prevent platelet adherence ...

Endarterectomy (also called carotid endarterectomy, carotid artery surgery) is a surgical procedure used to open a blocked or narrowed carotid artery located in the neck. This procedure is used to ...

A new predictive model developed by Ochsner Health helps clinicians make real-time decisions for patients who had a stroke ...

Tammie Finley is enjoying pain-free life again thanks to a procedure performed by Adena Heart and Vascular Institute surgeon ...

Carotid Endarterectomy - For patients with significant carotid artery narrowing with or without stroke-like symptoms, surgery may be recommended. Carotid Endarterectomy surgery involves exposing the ...

We utilize all commercially available stent grafts, including fenestrated and branched grafts. Carotid endarterectomy remains the gold-standard treatment for extra-cranial carotid stenosis. This ...

Tammie Finley didn't think she'd ever walk comfortably again, the result of leg pain she'd lived with for nearly a decade that had become unbearable.

elevated risk of stroke... Being able to spot these emboli means that it may be possible to plan an appropriate surgical intervention—namely, carotid endarterectomy—before the emboli break up ...

Tammie Finley didn’t think she’d ever walk comfortably again, the result of leg pain she’d lived with for nearly a decade ...