Heparin is the anticoagulant of choice to prevent thrombosis distally to the clamped internal carotid artery during ... Dextran is commonly used after endarterectomy to prevent platelet adherence ...

Every year, nearly 800,000 people have a stroke in the United States, and it is the fifth-leading cause of death and the most ...

Plastics are now everywhere, with tiny fragments found in several major organs of the human body, including the placenta.

While carotid endarterectomy, a surgical procedure to remove plaque from the carotid artery, has been shown to reduce the ...

Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Katra has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by performing Jammu and Kashmir’s first-ever ...

The most effective treatment for carotid artery stenosis is carotid endarterectomy (CEA). To date, randomized trials of this procedure versus best medical care have excluded patients aged 80 years ...

Endarterectomy (also called carotid endarterectomy, carotid artery surgery) is a surgical procedure used to open a blocked or narrowed carotid artery located in the neck. This procedure is used to ...

Carotid Endarterectomy - For patients with significant carotid artery narrowing with or without stroke-like symptoms, surgery may be recommended. Carotid Endarterectomy surgery involves exposing the ...

Clearly, more data are needed to establish the relative merits of present-day endovascular therapy and endarterectomy for the treatment of carotid occlusive disease. Results from two large ...