Some patients with carotid stenosis will gain no additional benefit from revascularisation for stroke prevention, CAR score ...

Frankie Maldonado, the Director of Operations for Life Guard Imaging joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to share more about their innovative CT scan and ...

Ultrasound imaging of the common carotid artery (CCA) offers a safe and accessible method for assessing vascular responses, including lumen diameter (LD), intima-media thickness (IMT), and pulse wave ...

aimed to tackle this knowledge gap via their "Mild but Unstable Stenosis of Internal Carotid Artery (MUSIC)" study. This multicenter prospective cohort study, which was published online on ...

He hopes to expand this research beyond the carotid artery and also run some animal experiments to test for cause and effect. "We just don't know," Clark said. "Almost all of what we know about ...

In this way, every patient with a stroke due to carotid artery narrowing can receive a tailor-made risk-based treatment. That saves many patients a major operation and lowers health care costs.

A risky carotid artery operation, currently still the standard treatment for many patients, may then no longer be necessary for this group of patients. This research, published today in the Lancet ...

Patients with carotid tandem lesions who received intravenous ... of tandem lesions in trials with information from both CT angiography or MR angiography and digital subtraction angiography.

The study focused on the carotid artery, a known predictor of cardiovascular risk. Biomechanical tests, morphometric, and histological measurements were conducted, and a numerical model was developed ...

This milestone marks the first dual-layer micromesh carotid stent approved in the United States, offering physicians a clinically proven option to improve patient outcomes in carotid artery ...

The stent system is indicated for the treatment of carotid artery stenosis in patients at ... or post-endarterectomy restenotic lesions in the internal carotid arteries or at the carotid bifurcation.