A 60 year-old man presented with spells of left sided weakness, often provoked by standing up quickly. His neurological exam was completely normal. Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion: Cerebral ...

Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis: Angiogram of the Left Common Carotid Artery (CCA). Note the high grade stenosis of the left internal carotid artery (ICA) just distal to the carotid bifurcation.

They postulated, therefore, that ligation of the common carotid artery might diminish cerebral blood flow to a greater degree than ligation of the internal carotid artery because of potential ...

Carotid Artery Disease & Stroke 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 ...

Based on the 45.8% of patients who underwent brain MRI before and 1 day after carotid endarterectomy, all ischemic lesions after surgery were ipsilateral to the intervened internal carotid artery.

Other common mechanisms include direct spread throughout the course of head and neck infections and carotid surgery and trauma.

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.

The morphology of the internal carotid artery (ICA) at the occluded segment based on catheter angiography was analyzed. Recanalization of symptomatic chronic internal carotid artery occlusion (CICAO) ...

A "carotid artery bulb" isn't a diagnosis; it's the name of an anatomic structure. Also called the carotid sinus, it is a normal structure in the internal carotid artery (the major artery going to ...

Background: Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) often herald a stroke, but little is known about the acute natural history of TIAs. Our objective was to quantify the early risk of stroke after a TIA in ...