When surgical intervention is needed, carotid endarterectomy involves removing plaque from the artery, while carotid stenting ...

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 ...