Paul Hargadon doesn't put much stock in being the first person in the United States to get a new kind of carotid artery stent. His vascular surgeon Dr. Bradley Boone at Cardiothoracic and Vascular ...

Pennsylvania heart specialists welcomed the results of a decade-long study reinforcing their belief in minimally invasive techniques to treat clogged neck arteries versus major surgery. Researchers ...

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Improvements in medical therapy, carotid-artery stenting, and carotid endarterectomy call into question the preferred management of asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Whether adding revascularization to ...

LOS ANGELES — Results from 10 years' follow-up in the Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy versus Stenting Trial (CREST) trial comparing carotid stenting and endarterectomy show low postprocedural ...

Optimized medical therapy (OMT) is as effective as surgery for carotid revascularization in reducing stroke risk in the majority of patients with carotid artery stenosis, results of a planned interim ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people found to have a symptomless buildup of plaque in their neck arteries, intensive medical therapy, not surgery, should be tried first, researchers conclude based ...

The researchers think that in the future this will be the group that may still have to undergo surgery. In this way, every patient with a stroke due to carotid artery narrowing can receive a ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Revascularization with either stenting or endarterectomy does not improve cognitive function compared with medical management alone in patients who have asymptomatic high-grade carotid ...

MUNICH, Germany—Among patients with a carotid stenosis of at least 50% and a low-to-intermediate risk of stroke, adding carotid revascularization—mostly with endarterectomy—to optimal medical therapy ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Society for Vascular Surgery ® Vascular Quality Initiative ® (SVS VQI) clinical registry today announced the Carotid Care Quality Champion recognition program. The ...