HONOLULU, HI—Results of carotid revascularization with either surgery or stenting stand up well over the long term, with very low rates of stroke through up to a decade of follow-up, new data from the ...

A research team led by Professors Joo-Yong Hahn, Young Bin Song, and Ki Hong Choi of the Division of Cardiology at Samsung ...

As part of a multinational clinical trial, researchers and clinicians at U of U Health brought gold-standard medical stroke prevention care to patients, while showing that adding another treatment ...

Neither stenting nor endarterectomy provided a boost versus medical therapy alone in patients with asymptomatic stenosis.

Carotid revascularization did not lead to better cognitive performance compared with intensive medical therapy alone, according ...

Patients with complex coronary artery disease who underwent a stenting procedure guided by intravascular imaging were nearly 40% less likely to die of heart disease, have a heart attack caused by a ...

Orlando, Florida— Performing balloon angioplasty following the deployment of a carotid stent reduces the risk of restenosis but also appears to increase the risk of stroke, according to an analysis of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “There has been some suppression of carotid activity in the [United States] largely based on reimbursement ...

An elevated homocysteine level, which is associated with coronary artery disease, can be lowered by use of folic-acid supplements. In a randomized placebo-controlled trial called the Swiss Heart Study ...

In the ACST-2 trial, non-procedural fatal or disabling stroke occurred in 2.5% of patients in both groups -- those assigned to carotid stenting and those who underwent carotid endarterectomy, for a ...

Older patients and those with symptomatic carotid stenosis were at increased risk for mortality, stroke or transient ischemic attack during and after a carotid artery stenting procedure, according to ...

Editor’s note: This post is part of a Health Affairs Blog series titled “ORBITA: Lessons From A Landmark Trial," which focuses on the recent study finding that coronary stenting did not improve ...