Carotid artery disease occurs when the blood vessels supplying your brain and head, known as carotid arteries, are damaged or blocked by fatty deposits. These deposits contain cholesterol that organizes as a plaque, which ...
Sep 20, 2023
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Research from Ochsner Health published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology is likely to influence expanded insurance coverage for carotid artery stenting.
Aug 3, 2022
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Lifestyle changes and medication are more effective in combating the risk of stroke than invasive procedures, a Monash University study shows.
Jul 18, 2022
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Medical interventions, such as improving diet, lowering blood lipids, or controlling blood pressure and blood sugar, can only do so much when it comes to treating atherosclerotic disease. Is it possible to make earlier predictions ...
May 10, 2022
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(HealthDay)—For patients with carotid stenosis, use of an embolic protection device is associated with reduced risk for in-hospital stroke or death, major stroke or death, and stroke after carotid artery stenting, according ...
Jun 21, 2017
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Preventing carotid artery occlusion (blockage) may not be a valid indication for stenting because the risk of progression to occlusion appears to be below the risk of carotid stenting or endarterectomy (surgical removal of ...
Sep 21, 2015
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After reviewing outcomes from thousands of cases, researchers at Johns Hopkins report that patients with blocked neck arteries who undergo carotid stenting to prop open the narrowed blood vessels fare decidedly worse if their ...
Jun 3, 2015
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Hospitals performing carotid artery stenting vary considerably in rates of in-hospital stroke or death—from 0 to 18 percent overall and from 1.2 to 4.7 percent when accounting for variation in health of patients at admission, ...
May 18, 2015
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Winner of the DePuy Synthes Cerebrovascular Section Resident/Fellow Award, Karam Moon, MD, will be presenting his research, The Myth of Restenosis after Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting.
May 11, 2015
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Use of either proximal embolic protection devices (P-EPDs) or distal filter embolic protection devices (F-EPDs) during elective carotid artery stenting results in low rates of in-hospital stroke and death, according to a ...
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