Tag: carotid stenosis
CX 2025: Carotid endarterectomy maintains its golden hue in ‘great debate’
The established ‘gold standard’ approach to carotid revascularisation remained enshrined as the go-to operation as far as the CX audience gathered in Theatre 3...
Smoking cessation remains a “ripe target” for improved medication adherence in...
New data presented at the 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM; 19–22 June, Chicago, USA) have revealed poor overall rates of medical therapy adherence in...
Hans-Henning Eckstein: 1955–2024
Hans-Henning Eckstein, the vascular surgeon who played a leading role in the SPACE and SPACE 2 randomised controlled trials on the treatment of carotid...
Measuring plaque inflammation via SCAIL scores may improve carotid stenosis risk...
The use of a relatively novel scoring system, referred to as Symptomatic carotid atheroma inflammation lumen-stenosis (SCAIL), has produced favourable predictive qualities versus the...
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...
