Your doctor may recommend a carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) test as a preventive measure for heart disease. A CIMT test measures the thickness of the inner layers of your carotid artery. The ...

SAN ANTONIO — Two techniques for opening neck arteries, one surgical and one using a catheter, offer similar long-term effectiveness in preventing strokes and heart attacks, a large trial showed. But ...

Thousands of people have avoided strokes by opting for preemptive surgery that removes a coating of hard plaque from the inside of a vital neck artery. A new study finds that this surgery has ...

The function of the carotid arteries is to help transport blood into a person’s brain and other areas in the head, making them essential to brain function. Arteries play a vital role in transporting ...

One of the health screening tests that organizations sometimes offer to members of the public is an ultrasound test of the carotid arteries. There are two carotid arteries, one on each side of the ...

St. Luke's Medical Center (SLMC) - home of the Texas Heart® Institute (THI) - announced that they have treated the first eight patients in Texas in a multi-center, clinical trial of a new carotid ...

We randomly assigned patients with symptomatic or asymptomatic carotid stenosis to undergo carotid-artery stenting or carotid endarterectomy. The primary composite end point was stroke, myocardial ...