Atherosclerosis is the most common cause of carotid artery disease. It is unknown exactly how atherosclerosis begins or what causes it. Atherosclerosis is a slow, progressive, vascular disease that ...

Carotid artery dissection is the most common cause of stroke in people younger than 40 and causes 2.5% of strokes overall. The symptoms of carotid artery dissection vary significantly between ...

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 ...

The recently approved device simplifies operator manipulations by loading a balloon and filter onto the stent.

But it's one of the most common ... carotid arteries supply blood to the front of the brain and the vertebral arteries supply ...

The artery connects the internal carotid and the posterior cerebral arteries ... with saccular aneurysms being the most ...

Marvin Slosman, Chief Executive Officer of InspireMD, commented, “With more than 30,000 TCAR procedures performed in the U.S. each year, TCAR is a rapidly growing procedure that represents a ...