Interventionalists in our service will opt for stents with a closed-cell design (Carotid Wallstent, NexStent, X-Act) in lesions with a high emboligenic risk (fig4).

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

In the pioneering years of CAS, an attempt was made to implant balloon-expandable stents to open up the internal carotid artery (ICA) or common carotid artery (CCA). Owing to the superficial ...