Your neck and throat will be sore. This will get better over time. You may be prescribed blood thinning medication to prevent clots. You will have a carotid ultrasound every year to check if the ...

All of the patients were already undergoing preventative surgery to remove plaque from their carotid arteries (the main arteries that supply the brain with blood). This allowed the researchers to ...

Only 1 large randomized trial, the Carotid and Vertebral Artery Transluminal Angioplasty Study (CAVATAS) trial, has ever been published. [26] This trial compared angioplasty and stenting ...