We present the case of an 82-year-old woman with progressive dyspnea, hoarseness, and dysphagia due to a large substernal ...

An international study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that for people with severe carotid artery narrowing who haven't experienced recent stroke symptoms, a minimally invasive procedure ...

Improvements in medical therapy, carotid-artery stenting, and carotid endarterectomy call into question the preferred management of asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Whether adding revascularization to ...

Eight TD Bank branches in New Jersey are among the four dozen branches nationwide expected to permanently close early next year. According to a spokesperson, the Mount Laurel-based banking giant will ...

(WTRF) — An Ohio one-year-old has died after a family dog attack. The baby was grabbed by the jaw/neck by the family’s pit bull, which immediately severed the child’s carotid artery. The Tuscarawas ...

Optimized medical therapy (OMT) is as effective as surgery for carotid revascularization in reducing stroke risk in the majority of patients with carotid artery stenosis, results of a planned interim ...

West Branch Local Schools Board of Education has announced an emergency meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday (April 2) in the West Branch High School Media Room, at 14277 S. Main St. in Beloit. In a news ...

TUPELO — Carotid artery disease, a progressive buildup of calcium deposits and cholesterol in the primary artery supplying blood to the brain, poses a risk of stroke, but there are a few ways to treat ...

Objective To validate the carotid web (CW) risk stratification assessment described in previous works within a larger cohort of patients with symptomatic and incidentally found asymptomatic CWs.

Strokes caused by carotid tandem lesions can alter cerebral hemodynamics leading to compensatory collateral pathways involving the external carotid artery (ECA). We examined the prevalence of ...