The most effective treatment for carotid artery stenosis is carotid endarterectomy (CEA). To date, randomized trials of this procedure versus best medical care have excluded patients aged 80 years ...

Endarterectomy (also called carotid endarterectomy, carotid artery surgery) is a surgical procedure used to open a blocked or narrowed carotid artery located in the neck. This procedure is used to ...

Consistent with this 'conventional wisdom', the designers of the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) excluded patients aged 80 years or above for the first 2 of its 9 ...

BACKGROUND: The European Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension registry (CTEPH), conducted between 2007 and 2012, reported the major impact of pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) on the long-term ...

The NHS carries out 2,500 carotid endarterectomies (stroke-prevention operations) annually. Ironically, the procedure could trigger a stroke, although surgeons at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary say the ...

Regarded mostly as a lung disease, PAH is often in people with fewer nail fold capillaries, suggesting a disease of the small ...

Carotid endarterectomy. The carotid arteries are blood vessels in your neck that supply blood to your brain. This procedure removes sticky plaque that's blocking blood flow through a carotid artery.

Conducted by a team from the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli under the guidance of Professor Raffaele Marfelli, the study initially involved 304 patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy ...

Mass screening for atrial fibrillation using ECG together with heart failure biomarker does not prevent ischemic stroke or systemic embolism (blood clot) in older adults aged 75–76 years over 5 ...

Analyst Michael Petusky from Barrington maintained a Buy rating on Lemaitre Vascular (LMAT – Research Report) and keeping the price ...

The WVU Heart and Vascular Institute has been identified as a Carotid Care Quality Champion by the Society for Vascular Surgery® Vascular Quality Initiative® (SVS VQI) clinical […] ...