In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson designated February to be National Heart Month.  At the time, cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of death in the United States so he wanted people to focus ...

Michael Dunn expected to hear that he needed major surgery after doctors detected plaque buildup in his right carotid ...

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 ...

InspireMD (NSPR) and NAMSA announced that, pursuant to a previously announced strategic outsourcing partnership, the companies are working ...

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

Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

This study aimed to investigate the association of carotid artery revascularization and the collateral circulation types via the circle of Willis (CoW) with NVG and visual prognosis in patients with ...

Different approaches can be followed to allocate patients eligible for carotid revascularization to either stenting or endarterectomy. Recently, the Society for Vascular Surgery published in their ...

Various conditions can lead to carotid artery neck pain. For instance, some people experience carotidynia, which is inflammation of the blood vessels. Carotid artery dissection can also cause pain ...

Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is a valued method of treatment for cases of carotid stenosis ... advancing age has been an area of concern for the risk of perioperative complications.1–4 The role of ...

Patients already planned for non-culprit-lesion revascularization or surgical revascularization and those with previous coronary artery bypass grafting or logistical barriers to participation were ...