Carotid artery disease, also called carotid artery stenosis, occurs when the carotid arteries, the main blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the brain, become narrowed. The narrowing of the ...

Atherosclerotic carotid artery stenosis is relatively frequent ... reveals a high-grade symptomatic carotid stenosis on the left (arrow) and diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging shows ...

Figure 3a: Neck angiogram lateral (side) view of the left carotid artery. There is severe stenosis or narrowing of the internal carotid artery (red arrow) at its origin. Figure 3b: Lateral view of the ...

A new study published in Nature Cardiovascular Research found that while carotid artery narrowing can lead to stroke in both ...

The investigators randomized 1,004 patients (mean age 68 years; 31% women) with symptomatic or asymptomatic internal carotid artery stenosis ≥ 70% to either sonolysis or a sham intervention during ...