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Background Occlusion of the internal carotid artery (ICA) may extend into the middle or anterior cerebral artery (ICA ... Supporting this notion, tandem lesions (ie, simultaneous occlusion or stenosis ...

Background: Carotid stenosis has been associated with stroke and cognitive impairment. It remains unclear if hypometablism, a marker for neurodegeneration, may be in the mechanistic pathway in the ...

8,9 Such variants include any of the following: bovine arch; type II and especially type III arch; tortuosity, severe angulation, or loops of the common carotid artery; and common carotid artery ...

Among patients with normal coronary arteries none had severe stenosis of the aortic arch arteries, whereas we found severe stenosis of the internal carotid, vertebral, or subclavian artery in six (3.8 ...

LOS ANGELES -- For patients with large vessel occlusion (LVO) strokes, researchers found ways to make adjunctive ...

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 ...

32 Currently, a large-scale multicenter RCT, the Carotid and Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Surgery Study (CMOSS), is underway in China, which may provide further insights into the role of bypass ...

Carotid sinus hypersensitivity is rarely diagnosed before age 50 and is more common in men than women. Men with heart conditions such as hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, coronary artery disease and ...

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