Tag: carotid

ISC 2024 examines TCAR ‘explosion’ alongside advances in intensive medical therapy

This year’s International Stroke Conference (ISC; 7–9 February, Phoenix, USA) hosted discussions on the current state of play in carotid stenosis treatment—and, most notably,...
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Vascular News’ top 10 most popular stories of January 2024

January's top 10 highlights new guidelines from the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS), an expert consensus roundtable on the benefits of intravascular ultrasound...

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...

Midterm CARAS study results show cerebral ischaemic event incidence “should not...

The final publication of midterm results from the observational CARAS study suggest that cerebral ischaemic event (CIE) incidence in asymptomatic carotid stenosis patients “should...

No increased risk of complications found with transradial access for carotid...

Carotid artery stenting (CAS) delivered via transradial artery access has demonstrated no increased risk of stroke, death, myocardial infarction, transient ischaemic attack, or access...
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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...

No relationship found between DW-MRI lesions and long-term stroke risk following...

A secondary analysis of existing clinical trial data has indicated that new ischaemic brain lesions detected via diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) following carotid...

Interim data find “no evidence of benefit” for carotid revascularisation additional...

Interim results from the ECST-2 randomised controlled trial (RCT) have shown no evidence that carotid stenosis patients with a low-to-intermediate stroke risk, treated with...

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...

Distal embolic protection linked to significantly better outcomes in carotid stenting

Distal embolic protection using a filter has been associated with improved transfemoral carotid artery stenting (tfCAS) outcomes in terms of in-hospital stroke and death...
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Vascular News’ top 10 most popular stories of February 2023

February's top 10 includes the announcement that Abbott is to acquire Cardiovascular Systems, results of the PRESERVE study on the safety and effectiveness of...

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...
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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...
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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...

Smartphone video may offer non-invasive stroke screening option

Motion analysis of video recorded on a smartphone accurately detected narrowed carotid arteries, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart...

Worldwide TCAR analysis provides “roadmap” to evaluate future training approaches

An analysis of the worldwide experience of transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR) has produced key objective proficiency metrics and an analytic framework to assess adequate...

New carotid artery stent procedure to be evaluated by the Society...

A surveillance project to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR) in comparison with carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is being launched by...

Contego Medical completes enrolment of Paladin clinical registry

Contego Medical has completed enrolment in the Paladin Carotid Post­-dilation Balloon System Registry in Europe. The registry involves 5 centres with 100 total patients,...