Background: Approximately 10% of ischemic strokes are caused by carotid artery stenosis
(CAS). Estimated prevalence of asymptomatic CAS is 1%. Purpose: To evaluate evidence …

Background: The rate of adverse clinical outcomes among patients with asymptomatic
carotid stenosis receiving medical therapy alone can be used to guide clinical decision …

Background and Purpose—Increasing evidence suggests that carotid artery imaging can
identify vulnerable plaque elements that increase stroke risk. We correlated recently …

Background Publication bias is a major threat to the validity of systematic reviews. Searches
of clinical trials registries can help to identify unpublished trials, though little is known about …

Despite a decline during the recent decades in stroke-related death, the incidence of stroke
has remained unchanged or slightly increased, and extracranial carotid artery stenosis is …

Stroke is a global epidemic with a significant economic burden to patients, families, and
societies at large. In the industrialized world, stroke is the third most common cause of death …

Background Both pathophysiology and treatments of carotid atherosclerotic plaque stenosis
represent two interesting fields of strong scientific investigation. Among different drugs …

Physicians depend greatly on imaging techniques that help them make clinical decisions.
However, when a diagnosis is made on the basis of anatomical imaging alone, the disease …

Background. The study evaluated macrophage cytokines and macrophage metalloprotease
(MMP)-12 levels in patients with Stanford-A acute aortic dissection (AAD) and in patients …

Objective To determine the impact of contralateral carotid occlusion (CCO) and/or vertebral
artery occlusion (VAO) on the development of early postoperative neurologic complications …