...Rashid Ghaznawi; Ina Rissanen; Jeroen de Bresser; Hugo J. Kuijf; Nicolaas P.A. Zuithoff; Jeroen Hendrikse; Mirjam I. Geerlings; on behalf of the UCC-SMART-Study Group Introduction: It has been hypothesized that carotid artery stenosis (CAS) may lead to greater atrophy of subserved brain regions...

...Yu Yamamoto; Masakazu Okawa; Keita Suzuki; Ichiro Tateya; Michio Yoshimura; Yasutaka Fushimi; Eri Toda Kato; Kazumichi Yoshida; Susumu Miyamoto Introduction: Radiation-induced carotid artery stenosis (RI-CS) is known as one of long-term side effects of radiotherapy for head and neck cancer (HNC...

... was to determine whether the role of novel plasma biomarkers for atherosclerotic carotid artery disease is different in subjects developing symptomatic carotid artery stenosis (CAS), as opposed to those with incident asymptomatic CAS. Methods: The following biomarkers were measured in 5,550 middle-aged subjects...

... hemorrhage, hypothesizing that CAS patients receiving tirofiban or dual antiplatelet therapy and additional intravenous thrombolysis are at the highest risk for intracerebral hemorrhage. Acute ischemic stroke Antiplatelet therapy Carotid artery stenosis Carotid artery stenting Cerebral hemorrhage...

... advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Carotid artery stenosis Cerebral artery...

... institution. The inclusion criteria were the presence of asymptomatic moderate and severe (≥50%) carotid artery stenosis on Doppler ultrasound without significant acoustic shadowing (≥50% of the area) [ 16 ]. In case of bilateral stenosis, the larger plaque fulfilling the above-mentioned criteria was chosen...

.... Acute ischemic stroke Mechanical thrombectomy Carotid artery stenting Carotid artery stenosis Predictors of a favorable clinical outcome in patients with TO have only been rarely studied, especially data about the impact of collateral flow is lacking. What is known so far is that the clinical...

...Raywat Noiphithak; Anusak Liengudom Carotid artery stenosis (CS) is a major cause of ischemic stroke. Treatment of CS consists of best medical treatment and carotid revascularization (CR), including carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and carotid artery stenting (CAS). Both CR techniques have their own...

.... Halliday A, Harrison M, Hayter E, et al: 10-year stroke prevention after successful carotid endarterectomy for asymptomatic stenosis (ACST-1): a multicentre randomised trial. Lancet 2010;376:1074-1084. 2. Endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis. Executive committee for the asymptomatic...

... stroke risk, the benefit obtained from CEA will be optimised. The aim of this study was to evaluate the pathophysiological mechanism of procedural stroke in asymptomatic patients undergoing CEA in ACST-1. Carotid artery stenosis Carotid endarterectomy Stroke mechanism The trial...

...Tarun D. Singh; Christopher L. Kramer; Jay Mandrekar; Giuseppe Lanzino; Alejandro A. Rabinstein Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate the rate of progression of stenosis and development of symptoms in patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis (aCAS) treated with contemporary...

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... A, Hill MD, Leimgruber PP, Sheffet AJ, Howard VJ, Moore WS, Voeks JH, Hopkins LN, Cutlip DE, Cohen DJ, Popma JJ, Ferguson RD, Cohen SN, Blackshear JL, Silver FL, Mohr JP, Lal BK, Meschia JF: Stenting versus endarterectomy for treatment of carotid-artery stenosis. N Engl J Med 2010;363:11–23. 5...

... in patients with irregular plaques than in those with smooth plaques (p = 0.008 and 0.015, respectively). Conclusions: Carotid plaque surface irregularity predicts solid cerebral embolism during stenting of symptomatic carotid artery stenosis. Carotid artery stenosis Carotid artery stenting Cerebral...

... duplex sonography; in addition, HITS occurred significantly less often during effective anticoagulation (14% during heparin treatment vs. 36% in controls, p < 0.05). These findings suggest that HITS associated with carotid artery stenosis may reflect clinically silent artery-to-artery microembolism...

... treatment Stenting Carotid artery stenosis Randomised trial Stroke prevention © 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel 2009 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated into other languages, reproduced or utilized in any form or by any...

... artery stenosis Carotid artery stenting Cerebral embolism Transcranial Doppler ultrasound Plaque morphology Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) reduces the risk of stroke in both recently symptomatic and asymptomatic high-grade carotid artery stenosis [ 1,2,3 ]. During the last decade, carotid...

... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Stroke Carotid artery stenosis Vascular dementia Intracranial haemorrhage Aneurysm Matrix metalloproteinases Different families...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Carotid artery stenosis Intima-media thickness Ulceration Unstable plaque Ultrasound Angiography Sir William Osler described medicine as an art that is ‘based...

... and difficult to control hypertension (table 2 ). The carotid disease encountered in these delayed procedures was more typical of that seen in elective carotid surgery although ulcerated plaques were almost invariably found. Ischaemic stroke Carotid endarterectomy Carotid artery stenosis...