Physicians who back carotid stents argue the older research shouldn't be dismissed so easily.
Many contend that this is what's happening with the evidence for carotid interventional treatments.
"Medicine has gone off in the wrong direction as far as carotid disease, " she said.
The Vytorin trial used a new method called carotid ultrasound to try to show a benefit over Zocor.
One, called carotid IMT, is an ultrasound of the arteries in the neck.
It was within a millimetre of cutting his carotid artery which could have killed him, Exeter Crown Court heard.
They also received two to three times as many pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, cardiac-bypass operations, carotid endarterectomies, and coronary-artery stents.
Seeing a doctor early increases your chances that carotid artery disease will be detected and treated before a disabling stroke occurs.
The "pop" she felt in her neck the day before was her carotid artery tearing, a rare event called a carotid dissection.
While Deeb and Yaremchuk studied the carotid artery, thickening of one type of artery is considered an indication of atherosclerosis in general.
About 125, 000 Americans now get carotid surgery or carotid stents each year.
The skate of one of the players rose up and slashed Malarchuk across the neck, cutting his jugular vein and his carotid artery.
Punjab Singh, 65, suffered a single gunshot wound to the face that caused fractures and damage to his right carotid and vertebral arteries.
The researchers looked at the carotid arteries in snorers and found increased thickening of the artery walls, indicating damage already setting in.
In 2004 Collier botched the methodology for measuring results of carotid endarterectomy (in which plaque is removed from a major artery in the neck).
Davidson, the University of Chicago cardiologist, says this was allowable because using an easier-to-take measurement of carotid artery plaque would yield a clearer result.
They can prevent strokes by propping open the carotid artery, letting patients avoid the usual practice of having that vessel cut open in surgery.
Thirty-eight leading doctors in vascular medicine have written an open letter to Medicare and urged the program not to expand coverage for carotid stents.
It was not an outcomes trial measuring "hard" outcomes such as heart attack or stroke, but instead was a "surrogate" study measuring carotid artery thickness.
John's father had been paralyzed on his left side and had suffered a potentially lethal carotid artery dissection that could have led to a stroke.
Wholey of Highmark Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, a stent proponent, points out that carotid stents won broad Food and Drug Administration approval last year.
Carotid surgery began over a half-century ago, and studies by the 1990s clearly showed it was more effective than existing drug therapy at preventing strokes.
Modern heroes like Nicholas pump weights until their carotid arteries pop, and afterward they jump into their Ferraris and punch them to 100mph, in third gear.
Each participant underwent two carotid artery ultrasounds three years apart.
She first glimpsed this concept in her own patients a decade ago, finding that they had surprisingly low stroke rates despite carotid-artery blockage that once would have meant likely death.
"The independent panel recommended focusing the primary endpoint to the common carotid artery to expedite the reporting of the study findings, " the companies said in a press release Nov. 19.
"The great majority of patients won't get a benefit from stents or surgery, " said Australian neurologist Anne L. Abbott, who has led a pushback against high rates of carotid surgery and stents.
Charles Simonton, chief medical officer of Abbott's vascular division, said that carotid stenting has a similar net outcome in patients to carotid surgery, and therefore should be covered more widely by Medicare.
The attack barely missed severing Horn's carotid artery.
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