Commentary on an interesting study showing that a noninvasive technique, emboli detection via TCD, may be used to stratify high- and low-risk patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis.

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 ...

PURPOSEThe literature suggests that elective neck dissection (END) may be avoided in primaries with a depth of invasion (DOI) <3 mm. This study evaluated the accuracy of DOI in predicting nodal ...

Cervical artery dissection is a tear in an artery in the neck that provides blood flow to the brain. Such a tear can result in blood clots that cause stroke. A new study has found almost a five ...

Applying ultrasound to help break up thrombus during carotid endarterectomy reduces adverse neurological outcomes in the first 30 days after surgery in patients with either symptomatic or asymptomatic ...

Sonolysis, an application of therapeutic ultrasound, reduced periprocedural cerebrovascular events during carotid endarterectomy. The safety profile of sonolysis was supported by a reported lack ...

The lesions were tight stenoses (80.9%) and occlusions (19.1%) on atheromatous plaques or post-dissection. Figure 1 and Figure 2 show examples, on the one hand of carotid stenosis by atheromatous ...

The natural history and outcome of carotid dissection are extremely variable. The dissection may progress and expand, remain stable, or regress spontaneously with the rejoint of the vessel wall layers ...

Revascularization of carotid arteries has always been a challenging procedure, and both carotid surgery and transfemoral carotid stenting can lead to severe complications. Then, in 2015, the FDA ...

Patients with stroke have almost double the risk for MI within a year, while those with cervical artery dissection have no increased risk, new data confirmed.

Doppler ultrasonography with head maneuvers may reveal dynamic compression of the ICA and is less prone to logistical challenges. 33 CDDSA with head maneuvers is useful in equivocal cases. Angiograms ...

After the exclusion of 63 patients (57 patients were submitted to stent placement or CEA during the hospitalization, 4 had a carotid dissection, and 2 showed a bilateral significant carotid stenosis), ...