The foreign body was surgically removed and the common carotid artery perforation treated with reconstruction using bovine pericardial patch angioplasty. The patient’s circulatory function was ...

PSVs and end-diastolic velocities of the ICA and common carotid artery were recorded. Patients with PSVs of the ICA of > 140 cm/s underwent carotid computed tomographic (CT) angiography.

2). This showed complete occlusion of the left internal carotid artery at the common-carotid-artery bifurcation. The left subclavian artery was stenotic proximal to the origin of the vertebral artery.

The most common cause of carotid artery narrowing is a buildup of plaque in the arteries due to multiple risk factors such as smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, family history and ...

Every year, nearly 800,000 people have a stroke in the United States, and it is the fifth-leading cause of death and the most ...