Carotid stenosis is also known as carotid disease and carotid ... Contact your doctor immediately if you or someone you know has these types of visual symptoms. Carotid artery disease can be detected ...

However, a sufficiently tight stenosis will not always cause symptoms. Symptomatic carotid artery disease may result in either a transient ischemic attack (TIA) and/or a stroke (brain attack). A ...

For those exhibiting symptoms or a high degree of stenosis, interventions may be recommended. In addition to TCAR, FMC offers several procedures to treat carotid artery stenosis. “TCAR is a ...

called carotid artery stenosis. Carotid artery disease can cause strokes and TIAs (described below), though it does not always cause symptoms. Strokes – A stroke is when a part of the brain ...

The safest and most effective treatment for symptomatic vertebral artery stenosis has not yet been ... To date, the Carotid and Vertebral Artery Transluminal Angioplasty Study (CAVATAS) 3 is ...

Patients with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis of greater than 60% also ... the surgery is seen in males with recent stroke or TIA symptoms, patients 75 years or older, and in patients with ...

Auscultation of the heart in patients with aortic stenosis ... delayed (tardus) carotid upstroke. To asses for "parvus," it is often helpful to palpate one’s own carotid artery while ...

In the absence of proximal atherosclerotic disease, unilateral vertebral artery stenosis or ... relief with a carotid endarterectomy. Patients who continue to have symptoms due to embolic sequelae ...