Methods: We recruited patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis from our center. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound was performed at baseline. The outcomes were ischemic stroke and cardiovascular events.

The following medical subject heading (MeSH) terms and boolean operators were used to identify studies: carotid artery intima–media thickness OR CIMT AND lipid profile AND T2DM. The MeSH/keywords were ...

Actor Saif Ali Khan shared details of a near-fatal attack at his residence, revealing he has 30 scars on his neck and narrowly avoided damage to critical blood vessels. The knife penetrated close ...

This article was originally posted Dec. 8, 2014. It has been updated. There are many things in medicine that are merely a matter of preference or style. How to check a patient’s pulse is not one ...

the Mann–Whitney test was used for continuous variables and the chi-square test for categorical variables. Three logistic models were employed to evaluate the association between surrogate indexes of ...

Israel-based startup Pylon Medical has recently developed a first-of-its-kind method of treating carotid artery disease, one of the leading risk factors for stroke. The carotid arteries are a pair of ...

Sixty-three percent were done for ≥ 70% asymptomatic carotid stenosis and 37% for strokes/transient ischemic attacks. Table 1 summarizes the clinical and demographic characteristics. The ...

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Imaging tests that may be ordered during the workup of a TIA include ... Your healthcare provider may recommend restoring blood flow to the carotid artery (located in your neck) through a process ...

The anterior tibial artery is located in the lower leg, running from the popliteal fossa just behind the knee down along the tibia and fibula, the major bones of the lower leg. It is a branch of the ...