Tag: carotid endarterectomy
Vascular News’ top 10 most popular stories of October 2024
Vascular News' live conference coverage, an interview with Kevin Mani (Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden), and several industry updates feature in October's top 10.
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Carotid endarterectomy ‘remains useful and relevant’ in era of improving medical...
Findings from a retrospective analysis presented at the recent European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) annual meeting (24–27 September, Kraków, Poland) provide evidence that—for...
SVS Vascular Quality Initiative launches Carotid Care Quality Champion programme
The Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI) clinical registry today announced the Carotid Care Quality Champion recognition programme.
The programme honours healthcare...
Single-centre analysis suggests improved longer-term outcomes with endarterectomy versus TCAR
A large, single-centre analysis has found that, despite parity between the two procedures in terms of perioperative clinical outcomes, carotid endarterectomy (CEA) was associated...
Evidence, timing and medical therapy: Key carotid questions addressed at VSASM...
Extolling the benefits of evidence-based practice, timely surgical intervention and intensive medical therapy, Dominic PJ Howard (Oxford, UK) spoke at the Vascular Society of...
“Sonolysis is back” after safely reducing endarterectomy stroke risk in randomised...
Positive results from a clinical trial involving a novel therapeutic procedure known as sonolysis—deployed during a carotid endarterectomy (CEA)—were presented at the recent European...
Efforts to move towards routine patch closure or eversion endarterectomy among...
A nationwide cohort study of over 9,000 patients shows that the “controversial” practice of arteriotomy closure for carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is associated with an...
Medical therapy improvements mean “the time has come” to reconduct prior...
“The time has definitely come to look at the evidence, and redo these studies,” posited Alun Davies (Imperial College London, London, UK), putting forward...
TCAR and the treatment of asymptomatic patients hot topics for discussion...
Barbara Rantner (Munich, Germany) talks about the “fantastic experience” of being back in person at CX 2022, where she notes that attendees were able...
Vascular News’ top 10 most popular stories of January 2023
January's top 10 highlights an individual patient data meta-analysis on the safety of carotid endarterectomy in the elderly and a new randomised trial on...
Equivalency to clinical practice “varies considerably” across recent carotid intervention trials
The external validity—in other words, the transferability to real-world clinical practice—of contemporary randomised controlled trials (RCTs) investigating carotid artery stenosis interventions “varies considerably”, as...
Age is just a number: Individual patient data meta-analysis probes safety...
A newly published meta-analysis of individual patient data has found that older patients with symptomatic carotid disease are likely to benefit as much from...
Vascular News’ top 10 most popular stories of October 2022
Five-year outcomes from the randomised SPACE-2 trial on carotid artery stenosis, an interview with Joseph S Coselli, and a report on the "significant" increase...
Endarterectomy and TCAR “continue to show superior outcomes” to transfemoral stenting
Researchers led by a vascular team in Indianapolis found that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) remains the most-used strategy in carotid revascularisation, with CEA and transcarotid...
Randomised trial finds carotid endarterectomy or stenting not superior to best...
Five-year outcomes of a multicentre, randomised controlled trial (RCT) indicate that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) or carotid artery stenting (CAS) are not superior to best...
Carotid stenting demonstrates comparable short- and long-term results to endarterectomy
Pooled patient-level data from more than 2,500 asymptomatic, non-octogenarian subjects have shown that carotid artery stenting (CAS) achieved comparable short- and long-term results to...
Vascular News’ top 10 most popular stories of May 2022
Two-year data on the use of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) in calcified peripheral disease treatment, an advertorial sponsored by Bentley exploring the role of bridging...
Silk Road Medical announces expanded Medicare coverage for TCAR in standard...
Silk Road Medical recently announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), through collaboration with the Society of Vascular Surgery’s Patient Safety...
ESVS publishes 2023 guidelines on management of atherosclerotic carotid and vertebral...
The European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) has just released 2023 clinical practice guidelines on the management of atherosclerotic carotid and vertebral artery disease....
Perioperative outcomes of carotid endarterectomy not improved on dual versus single...
At the time of carotid endarterectomy (CEA), surgeons should consider single antiplatelet therapy (SAPT) rather than dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT). This is the conclusion...
Vascular News 94 – June 2022 US Edition
In this issue:
Community-focused approach required to tackle global issue of unnecessary amputations
Perioperative outcomes of carotid endarterectomy not improved on dual versus single...
Vascular News 94 – June 2022 OUS Edition
In this issue:
Community-focused approach required to tackle global issue of unnecessary amputations
Perioperative outcomes of carotid endarterectomy not improved on dual versus single...
Silk Road Medical announces FDA approval of expanded indications for the...
Silk Road Medical recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved expanded indications for the company's Enroute stent to include patients...
Vascular News – CX Special Edition 2022 US
In this issue:
What to expect from CX 2022
A year in profiles: Ali AbuRahma, Michael Jenkins, Joseph Bavaria, and Palma Shaw
Vascular News debuts a...
Vascular News – CX Special Edition 2022 OUS
In this issue:
What to expect from CX 2022
A year in profiles: Ali AbuRahma, Michael Jenkins, Joseph Bavaria, and Palma Shaw
Vascular News...
Randomised trial suggests carotid endarterectomy does not affect dementia risk
Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) does not appear to either reduce or increase the risk of dementia, despite it having been shown to reduce stroke risk....
InspireMD announces the inclusion of its CGuard carotid stent in CREST-2...
InspireMD has announced that its CGuard embolic prevention stent system (EPS) will be included as a device option for stenting in CREST-2 (Carotid revascularisation...
Expedited carotid artery surgery after index event “probably safer” than expedited...
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 71 studies suggests that, at present, carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is safer than carotid artery stenting (CAS) when performed...
Cost-effectiveness of TCAR versus carotid endarterectomy addressed in new study
A cost-effectiveness model based on peer-reviewed sources suggests that although five-year costs for transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR; Silk Road Medical) were higher than those for...
Women face increased risk of stroke and readmission after carotid interventions
A recent study has pointed to an increased risk of stroke in both asymptomatic and symptomatic female patients, as well as readmission in asymptomatic...
TCAR may be associated with favourable outcomes for treatment of restenotic...
Transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR; Silk Road Medical) may be associated with favourable in-hospital outcomes for the treatment of restenotic carotid lesions after carotid endarterectomy...
Five-year ACST-2 results: Carotid artery surgery and stenting have similar long-term...
Carotid artery surgery and stenting have comparable long-term effects on fatal or disabling stroke in asymptomatic patients with severe carotid artery stenosis. That is...
First ever analysis of TCAR in standard surgical risk patients demonstrates...
Silk Road Medical has announced positive results from an independent analysis of standard surgical risk patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and transcarotid artery revascularisation...
Higher risk of periprocedural hazards for patients undergoing carotid interventions after...
A systematic review and meta-analysis has demonstrated that patients undergoing carotid interventions after thrombolysis have a higher risk of periprocedural hazards, compared with those...
SVS releases updated clinical practice guidelines on extracranial cerebrovascular disease
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has released updated clinical practice guidelines accompanied by an implementation document on the management of patients with extracranial...
TCAR associated with “promising early and late outcomes”, pooled data suggest
A systematic review and meta-analysis has found that transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR) is associated with “promising early and late outcomes” in patients with internal...
TCAR a “phenomenal alternative” to carotid endarterectomy for high-risk patients
Keith Calligaro (Philadelphia, USA) interviews Vikram Kashyap (Cleveland, USA) for VEITHtv at VEITHsymposium 2019 (19–23 November, New York, USA) about whether transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR) might replace carotid...
TCAR “combines best of both worlds” but carotid endarterectomy “remains the...
Ali AbuRahma (Charleston, USA) moderates a panel for VEITHtv where he is joined by Mahmoud Malas (San Diego, USA) and Enrico Ascher (New York, USA), to...
Favorable outcomes with TCAR versus carotid endarterectomy in patients with carotid...
Silk Road Medical announced the presentation of real-world data for the treatment of patients with carotid artery disease at risk for stroke at the...
Protamine use found to significantly reduce reoperations for patients who undergo...
Reoperations for bleeding are cut in half among patients who receive protamine during carotid endarterectomy, a new study has found. That was the main...
Ultrasound surveillance following carotid endarterectomy “costly and unlikely to improve outcomes”
According to a recent study, ultrasound surveillance following carotid endarterectomy is “costly and unlikely to improve outcomes or affect management,” even if over 80%...
Similar in-hospital major outcomes of TCAR and carotid endarterectomy
Major adverse events in patients undergoing transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR) were similar to those receiving a carotid endarterectomy, a study has found, despite the...
