On the morning of the stent procedure, make sure you take aspirin and other blood ... Your doctor will pass the Embolic Protection System into the carotid artery to help capture any plaque or ...

In the pioneering years of CAS, an attempt was made to implant balloon-expandable stents to open up the internal carotid artery (ICA ... the outcome of the CAS procedure in approximately 20 ...

The most common cause of carotid artery narrowing is a buildup of plaque in the arteries due to multiple risk factors such as smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, family history and ...

Applying ultrasound to help break up thrombus during carotid endarterectomy reduces adverse neurological outcomes in the ...

Sixty-nine patients had ICA stenting and 14 had CCA stents (these were CCA bifurcated stents). Sixty-three percent were done for ≥ 70% asymptomatic carotid stenosis and 37% for strokes/transient ...

More information: Enqiang Chang et al, Dexmedetomidine decreases cerebral hyperperfusion incidence following carotid stenting: A double-blind, randomized controlled trial, Med (2024). DOI: 10.1016 ...

Welcome to the Saint Louis University Vascular Surgery! We are one of the ... However, we perform transfemoral carotid stenting if indicated and are a Silk Road “Center of Excellence” in Transcarotid ...

Jenkins et al. retrospectively reviewed their series of 105 patients who underwent endovascular stenting for symptomatic vertebral artery stenosis in 112 vertebral arteries. 1 Their patient ...

Charlie then underwent surgery using a stent graft to fix the punctured artery. "It's a stent graft, so what it did is recreated a brand new carotid artery inside Charlie's old carotid artery," Dr ...

For patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy ... Participants were randomly assigned to receive sonolysis or sham procedure (507 and 497 individuals, respectively). The composite incidence ...

Patients with coronary artery disease—plaque buildup inside the arteries that leads to chest pain, shortness of breath, and heart attack—often undergo PCI, a non-surgical procedure in which ...