Although stenting seems to be an effective alternative to endarterectomy for medium-term prevention of ipsilateral stroke, higher periprocedural risk of stroke or death, and recurrent stenosis ...

a group of neurologists has suggested a new means of identifying those patients who are most at risk from ipsilateral stroke. Problematically, most patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis will ...

The aim of this study is to examine if repeated ischemic events increase the risk of recurrent ipsilateral stroke among patients with symptomatic 50–99% carotid stenosis. Methods: This is a ...

Only additional TIA or amaurosis fugax that occurred before CEA and before recurrent ipsilateral ischemic stroke were analyzed. † Adjusted for age, sex, degree of symptomatic carotid stenosis ...

The recently approved device simplifies operator manipulations by loading a balloon and filter onto the stent.