Tag: carotid artery stenosis

ISC 2024 examines TCAR ‘explosion’ alongside advances in intensive medical therapy

This year’s International Stroke Conference (Feb. 7–9) in Phoenix, Arizona, hosted discussions on the current state of play in carotid stenosis treatment—and, most notably,...

Safety benefits mean TCAR may be preferable approach in radiation-induced carotid...

A study set to be presented at VAM (14–17 June, National Harbor, USA) has found that the long-term outcomes of transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR)...

Interim data find ‘no evidence of benefit’ for carotid revascularization additional...

Interim results from the ECST-2 randomized controlled trial (RCT) have shown no evidence that carotid stenosis patients with a low-to-intermediate stroke risk, treated with...

Medical therapy gains highlight need to reassess carotid surgery

“The time has definitely come to look at the evidence, and redo these studies,” posited Alun Davies, MD, from Imperial College London in London,...

Equivalency to clinical practice ‘varies considerably’ across recent carotid intervention trials

The transferability to real-world clinical practice of contemporary randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating carotid artery stenosis interventions “varies considerably,” according to a recent analysis...

Carotid stenting demonstrates comparable short- and long-term results to endarterectomy

Pooled patient-level data from more than 2,500 asymptomatic, non-octogenarian subjects have shown that carotid artery stenting (CAS) achieved comparable short- and long-term results to...