Brought to you by:
Dementia patients see worse outcomes after AAA repair
A cohort study using national Medicare data found patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias face significantly higher risks across different outcomes after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. The data were presented at the 2026 annual meeting of the…
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: volumes, structural connectivity, functional connectivity and other relevant findings associated with neurodegeneration,’ he says. Society for…
Randomized trial suggests carotid endarterectomy does not affect dementia risk
Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) does not appear to either reduce or increase the risk of dementia, despite it having been shown to reduce stroke risk. This is according to 20-year results from the ACST-1 trial, published online ahead of print in…