Quantification of carotid atherosclerosis is important in monitoring patients at risk of cardiovascular events and in evaluating therapies. High-resolution 3D carotid magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...

Background Collaterals may affect revascularization, ischemic severity, and clinical outcomes in acute stroke owing to internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion. Objective To examine the hypothesis that ...

In 1953, DeBakey performed the first successful carotid endarterectomy for the treatment of an occluded cervical carotid artery. 11 In 1954, Eastcott performed the first successful carotid ...

Objective Low association between cardiac symptoms and coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with inflammatory joint diseases (IJD) demands for objective markers to improve cardiovascular risk ...

InspireMD, Inc. (the "Company") (Nasdaq: NSPR), developer of the CGuard Prime Carotid Stent System for the prevention of stroke, today announced that the U.S.

InspireMD, Inc. announced that the FDA has granted premarket approval (PMA) of the company’s CGuard Prime carotid stent syst ...

Recently, the CATCH sequence developed for coronary plaque imaging was extended to the carotids. 58 Using histology validation, in an in vivo and ex vivo study of 12 patients undergoing carotid ...

Using data from the Rotterdam Study in the Netherlands, researchers have uncovered that carotid artery plaques can undergo potentially dangerous changes over time in patients without symptoms, ...

With a carotid stent, dilation balloon, and integrated embolic protection (IEP) filter for added safety, the system also allows for three steps in one, minimizing manipulation of balloons and stents ...

Carotid plaque thickness and IMT are reliable indices for assessing the extent of coronary atherosclerosis. These results support previous studies which showed that the thickness of the largest plaque ...

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