Carotid artery stenting with embolic protection has been shown to be a proven alternative to carotid endarterectomy in patients with significant carotid disease. The transfemoral approach is the ...

Carotid stenting – Carotid stenting is when specialists insert a tiny metal tube called a “stent” into the carotid artery. The stent is designed to prop open narrowed arteries.

Carotid percutaneous transluminal angioplasty/stenting has become an accepted ... The perioperative stroke rate was 1.2%. When the old DUS velocity criteria for nonstented carotid arteries were ...

The most common cause of carotid ... stroke-like symptoms, surgery may be recommended. Carotid Endarterectomy surgery involves exposing the carotid artery in the neck, clamping the artery above and ...

It found that only 11% of patients receiving Dex developed cerebral hyperperfusion, compared to 38% in a placebo group. Only 3% of patients went on to develop cerebral hyperperfusion syndrome, ...