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 ...

European research led by University College London (UCL), together with Amsterdam UMC and the University of Basel, shows that ...

A new study published in Nature Cardiovascular Research found that while carotid artery narrowing can lead to stroke in both ...

More recently, carotid artery stenting (CAS) has emerged as a less invasive alternative for revascularization. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether an increase in stenting ...

Atherosclerosis of the extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) causes 10–20% of ischaemic strokes.1 As luminal stenosis of the ICA grows, the risk of ischaemic stroke increases,2 and removal of the ...