Endarterectomy (also called carotid endarterectomy, carotid artery surgery) is a surgical procedure used to open a blocked or narrowed carotid artery located in the neck. This procedure is used to ...

Your face and neck may feel warm or flushed when this happens, but this usually goes away after a short time. Your doctor will pass the Embolic Protection System into the carotid artery to help ...

When surgical intervention is needed, carotid endarterectomy involves removing plaque from the artery, while carotid stenting uses a small tube to keep the artery open. The choice depends on the ...

A new predictive model developed by Ochsner Health helps clinicians make real-time decisions for patients who had a stroke ...

Atherosclerotic carotid artery stenosis is relatively frequent ... and stenting have increasingly been used as an alternative to surgery. Although these endovascular techniques have the advantage ...

we perform transfemoral carotid stenting if indicated and are a Silk Road “Center of Excellence” in Transcarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR). Please look at our website for information on our ...

In addition to TCAR, FMC offers several procedures to treat carotid artery stenosis. “TCAR is a cutting-edge technology in the field of vascular surgery,” Dr. Hernandez said. “The procedure ...

In response, researchers at Ochsner Health, led by Hernan Bazan, MD, DFSVS, FACS, have developed a predictive model with a 93% accuracy rate in determining whether urgent carotid-intervention ...

A team of doctors including neurologists, interventional radiologists, and neurosurgeons decided to use a minimally invasive approach called endovascular intervention. In this, a specialised device is ...