The chief characteristic of this syndrome is spontaneous syncope with ... may overstimulate the carotid sinus or may occlude the carotid artery. This, particularly in older persons, may cause ...

Doctors sometimes refer to carotidynia as Fay syndrome or transient perivascular inflammation of the carotid artery (TIPIC) syndrome. The condition has no known cause but links to tenderness at ...

Carotid artery disease, also called carotid artery stenosis, occurs when the carotid arteries, the main blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the brain, become narrowed. The narrowing of the ...

Carotid percutaneous transluminal angioplasty/stenting has become an accepted treatment modality for carotid artery stenosis in high-risk patients. There has been an ongoing debate regarding which ...

symptoms of carotid artery dissection may occur which include headache, neck pain and Horner’s syndrome (ptosis - drooping eyelid, miosis - constriction of the pupil, and hemianhidrosis - lack ...

Another indication for vertebral artery reconstruction pertains to patients who have both extracranial internal carotid and vertebral atherosclerotic disease and who have not gained symptom relief ...