Your doctor will pass the Embolic Protection System into the carotid artery to help capture any plaque or particles that could travel into the smaller vessels in the brain. You should not feel any ...

The most effective treatment for carotid artery stenosis is carotid endarterectomy ... a prospective record of vascular procedures carried out at the Toledo Hospital, Ohio, USA, analyzed all ...

and distal embolic protection devices during the endovascular procedure. Stents suitable for use in the extracranial carotid artery only became available during the second half of the recruitment ...

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 ...

InspireMD enrolled the first patient in its CGUARDIANS II pivotal study, which will evaluate the CGuard Prime Carotid Stent ...

Hernan Bazan at Ochsner Health and colleagues reveals how frailty assessments can accurately predict outcomes in urgent ...

However, we perform transfemoral carotid stenting if indicated and are a Silk Road “Center of Excellence” in Transcarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR ... you may have as you look for a place to ...

While carotid endarterectomy, a surgical procedure to remove plaque from the carotid artery, has been shown to reduce the risk of stroke, not all patients experience the same outcomes, according ...