Sonolysis, an application of therapeutic ultrasound, reduced periprocedural cerebrovascular events during carotid endarterectomy. The safety profile of sonolysis was supported by a reported lack of ...

Q: My cardiovascular surgeon tells me medicine has mostly abandoned shunt and stent placements as a solution to carotid artery plaques. Instead, doctors are returning to the older "Roto-Rooter" ...

Oxford, UK - Carotid endarterectomy is beneficial not only in patients with the most severe carotid stenosis but also in other specific subsets of patients, a new study suggests. A meta-analysis ...

Carotid artery stenting (CAS) incurs greater expense but provides no better clinical outcomes than carotid endarterectomy (CEA), according to a retrospective single-center analysis published online ...

Medications for stroke prevention have become more potent over the past 20 years, and it could be that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) no longer has an advantage over optimal medical therapy for patients ...

Carotid artery stenosis results from a build-up of atherosclerotic plaques within the carotid artery wall and is responsible for approximately 10% of all strokes. Carotid endarterectomy, the surgical ...

When the additional factors of age, gender, payer source, and time were included in multivariate models, it was found that age, gender, race, and time were significant predictors of either CEA or CAS.

Gadsden Regional Medical Center announced that one of its surgeons, Dr. Sudhan Nagarajan, has begun performing transcarotid artery revascularization surgery. Nagarajan is the only surgeon in Etowah ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TransCarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR) ...