Dr. Amit Dwivedi offers his perspective on patient selection criteria for the DETOUR System, including patient and lesion ...

The impact of plastic on the environment and health has become quite well-known over the past few years. Many people may be ...

A practical approach to selecting open or endovascular treatment for CFA atherosclerotic disease based on patient risk, ...

Revascularization is a procedure that can restore blood flow in blocked arteries or veins. For someone with peripheral artery disease (PAD), the operation can help ease symptoms and prevent serious ...

Most carotid-artery stenting or endarterectomy is done for asymptomatic cases. The large CREST-2 randomized trial now shows that endarterectomy holds no stroke and mortality benefit over intensive ...

Carotid artery is the blood vessel that supplies oxygen-rich blood to the brain. Stenosis of this artery leads to impaired blood flow to the brain and altered blood-brain barrier properties, which can ...

A retrospective, nationwide cohort study has revealed carotid endarterectomy (CEA) performed better than carotid artery stenting (CAS) in France over the course of a decade, while also highlighting ...

After 30 days following the procedure, 94.4% of patients were free from serious adverse events. HealthDay News — For patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy, sonolysis is safe and results in a ...

Applying ultrasound to help break up thrombus during carotid endarterectomy reduces adverse neurological outcomes in the first 30 days after surgery in patients with either symptomatic or asymptomatic ...

For patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy, sonolysis is safe and results in a significant reduction in the composite incidence of ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack, and death within 30 ...

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 ...