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.

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 ...

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 ...

Carotid artery dissection is the most common cause of stroke in people younger than 40 and causes 2.5% of strokes overall. The condition may occur due to trauma, such as a car accident.

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 ...

Your internal carotid arteries carry blood to your brain. The most common cause of strokes is when a piece of plaque inside the arteries of your neck breaks loose. Your bloodstream then carries this ...

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 ...

The anterior cerebral artery is well seen, as are the lenticulostriate vessels. Presumably, the dissection resulted in an artery to artery embolus that lodged in the distal MCA stem. CCA = common ...

Carotid artery ultrasounds revealed at least one carotid plaque in 72 of 153 patients with spontaneous, unexplained thrombosis (47.1%), in 40 of 146 patients with secondary DVT (27.4%), and in 48 ...

Carotid Artery Dissection: (Left) Right Carotid Angiogram at the level of the carotid bifurcation; (Middle) Right Carotid Angiogram at the level of the base of the skull; (Right) Axial CT scan 3 days ...