Tag: Carotid stenosis
Hans-Henning Eckstein: 1955–2024
Hans-Henning Eckstein, the vascular surgeon who played a leading role in the SPACE and SPACE 2 randomised controlled trials on the treatment of carotid...
Measuring plaque inflammation via SCAIL scores may improve carotid stenosis risk...
The use of a relatively novel scoring system, referred to as Symptomatic carotid atheroma inflammation lumen-stenosis (SCAIL), has produced favourable predictive qualities versus the...
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...
A new pathway for preventing dementia?
Craig Weinkauf, MD, is leading a trial looking into a connection between Alzheimer's and carotid stenosis. ‘We want to try to quantify the brain:...
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...
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...
Report: Safely executing CEA during COVID-19
A carotid endarterectomy (CEA) carried out on a 71-year-old stroke patient who tested positive for COVID-19 is highlighted in a recent case report as an...
‘Risk prediction models can be used for targeted screening for asymptomatic...
Most prediction models can “reliably” identify individuals at high risk of significant asymptomatic carotid stenosis (ACS), a new study shows.
Michael H. F. Poorthuis, MD,...
TCAR outperforms transfemoral carotid artery stenting, ‘significantly’ lowering stroke and death...
A study that set out to determine whether there was a lesser stroke or death risk by deploying transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) over the...
Minority of patients in population of 4M demonstrate rapid progress of...
PALM BEACH, Fla.—While the overall incidence of rapid carotid stenosis progression is low, patients who show any degree of a worsening condition may warrant...
Patients with asymptomatic severe carotid stenosis may be successfully managed medically,...
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo.—High-risk patients with asymptomatic severe carotid stenosis may be successfully managed medically, delegates at the winter meeting of the Vascular & Endovascular...