Sunday, June 10, 2012

Carotid Artery Stenosis

  • In the future, predicting a persons stroke risk could be as simple as examining his or her eyes during a visit to the ophthalmologist.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • A new study presented at the 66th Vascular Annual Meeting presented by the Society for Vascular Surgery® today examined patient factors associated with 5-year survival following CEA in patients with asymptomatic internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis.
  • (Newswise)
  • Who were they? Dr.
  • (Medscape News)
  • avoid applying carotid artery stenting to your symptomatic patients when theyre treated early, he said in an interview. And they should be treated early.
  • (MedPage Today)
  • Most important cause of paralytic stroke was narrowing of carotid artery called carotid artery stenosis. The most common cause of carotid artery stenosis was atherosclerosis, the same disease which caused heart attack, he said.
  • (Tribune)
  • Overall, 15% of patients reported adverse events — mainly pyrexia, diarrhea, vomiting, and cough. One patient with a history of carotid artery stenosis died after carotid artery recanalization complications; that death was not considered to be drug related.
  • (Medscape News)

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