Carotid artery disease is a common cause of stroke. It occurs when plaque builds up inside the carotid arteries. These are the arteries that supply oxygen-rich blood to the brain. There are two ...

The common carotid artery is a large blood vessel that supplies the head and neck with oxygen-rich blood. There is one on either side of the body, known as the left and right carotid arteries.

Atherosclerosis is the most common cause of carotid artery disease. It is unknown exactly how atherosclerosis begins or what causes it. Atherosclerosis is a slow, progressive, vascular disease that ...

Dorrance 1 stated that occlusion of the common carotid artery diminishes flow in the ipsilateral internal carotid artery only by 50 per cent because reversal of flow through the external carotid ...

Ultrasonographic measurements of intima–media thickness can be limited to the common carotid artery, 5,7 averaged across multiple carotid-artery segments, 4,6 or combined as a score. 3 A review ...

In this randomized trial, the use of cerebral embolic protection (CEP) did not decrease the 72-hour incidence of stroke in ...

Your arteries play an important role in your cardiovascular health, transporting blood from the heart to all of the body's cells. And that's especially true for your carotid (neck) arteries, since ...

PSVs and end-diastolic velocities of the ICA and common carotid artery were recorded. Patients with PSVs of the ICA of > 140 cm/s underwent carotid computed tomographic (CT) angiography.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 79-year-old female who was scheduled for a carotid endarterectomy. The artery was occluded, and the procedure was unsuccessful.