The ACCF/AHA writing committee to create the 2011 Guideline on the Management of
Patients With Extracranial Carotid and Vertebral Artery Disease (ECVD) conducted a …

OBJECTIVES: We conducted the meta-analysis to compare the diagnostic accuracies of
carotid plaque and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) measured by B-mode …

Atherosclerotic stenosis of the internal carotid artery is an important cause of stroke. The aim
of this guideline is to analyse the evidence pertaining to medical, surgical and endovascular …

Background Previous clinical trials have suggested that carotid-artery stenting with a device
to capture and remove emboli (“embolic protection”) is an effective alternative to carotid …

Background Few randomised clinical trials have investigated the use of antithrombotic drugs
for early secondary prevention of stroke or transient ischaemic attack in patients with …

Importance There is an ongoing debate regarding the management of asymptomatic carotid
stenosis. Previous studies have reported imaging features of high-risk plaques that could …

Background and Purpose—Carotid ultrasound evaluation of intima-media thickness (IMT)
and plaque burden has been used for risk stratification and for evaluation of …

Objective: To determine whether MCP-1 (monocyte chemoattractant protein 1) levels in
human atherosclerotic plaques associate with plaque vulnerability features. Approach and …

Background and Purpose—Early diagnosis and treatment of a stroke improves patient
outcomes, and knowledge of the cause of the initial event is crucial to identification of the …

Background and Purpose—Until recently, atherosclerosis was thought to be inexorably
progressive. Beginning in 2001 and implemented in our vascular prevention clinics by 2003 …