Tag: carotid artery stenting
First patient enrolled in InspireMD’s CGUARDIANS II pivotal study
InspireMD today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the company’s CGUARDIANS II clinical trial evaluating its CGuard Prime carotid stent system in...
Contego Medical’s Neuroguard IEP system receives US FDA approval for carotid...
Contego Medical today announced the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) premarket approval (PMA) of the Neuroguard IEP system for carotid revascularisation.
The company shares...
InspireMD receives IDE approval from FDA for CGUARDIANS II pivotal trial
InspireMD has announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the company’s investigational device exemption (IDE) application to initiate the CGUARDIANS II...
SVS Vascular Quality Initiative launches Carotid Care Quality Champion program
The Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI) clinical registry today announced the Carotid Care Quality Champion recognition program.
The program honors healthcare...
Data and discussion forefront carotid session at ‘pivotal moment’
Contemporary management of carotid disease after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) carotid artery stenting (CAS) decision memo and prior to CREST-2...
CEA associated with less reintervention than stenting in first six months-study
A durability study that looks at reintervention risk among patients treated with carotid endarterectomy (CEA) versus carotid artery stenting (CAS) procedures established that CEA...
Vascular community split over ‘death’ of traditional carotid stenting
A debate between two prominent carotid interventionists—Peter Schneider, MD, professor of vascular and endovascular surgery at University of California San Francisco in San Francisco,...
Distal embolic protection linked to significantly better outcomes in carotid stenting
Distal embolic protection using a filter has been associated with improved transfemoral carotid artery stenting (tfCAS) outcomes in terms of in-hospital stroke and death...
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...
JACC study makes case for expanding coverage for carotid artery stenting
Research from Ochsner Health published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) is likely to influence expanded insurance coverage for carotid artery stenting.
The...
Female sex ‘should be considered an independent risk factor’ for new...
A preliminary report lends evidence to support female sex being considered as an independent risk factor for new stroke occurrence after carotid revascularization in...
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...
Interview: Combating the problem of spin, or overinterpretation, in RCTs
The presence of spin, or overinterpretation, in scientific papers that ultimately demonstrate statistically insignificant findings had been gnawing away at Thomas Forbes, MD, for...
SVS issues new guidelines covering carotid disease and popliteal aneurysms
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has released updated clinical practice guidelines for the management of extracranial cerebrovascular disease and popliteal artery aneurysms in...
Study detects no difference in adverse outcomes from balloon dilatation strategy...
Avoiding a strategy of post-stent balloon dilation during transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) may be unnecessary—a “contradistinction” to results shown in conventional transfemoral carotid artery...
TCAR may be associated with favorable outcomes in restenotic carotid lesions,...
Transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) may be associated with favorable in-hospital outcomes for the treatment of restenotic carotid lesions after carotid endarterectomy (CEA), suggests a...
Analysis shows TCAR is more cost effective than CAS for carotid...
Transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) produces similar outcomes to the gold standard treatment for carotid stenosis—carotid endarterectomy (CEA)—but comes at a greater cost. This was...