The most effective treatment for carotid artery stenosis ... Length of hospital stay, destination after leaving hospital or in-hospital mortality, and complications were secondary outcomes.

For carotid endarterectomy in SONOBIRDIE, sonolysis was started before the first skin incision and stopped after the last suturing of the skin at the end of surgery (up to 2 hours). "These ...

Applying ultrasound to help break up thrombus during carotid endarterectomy reduces adverse neurological outcomes in the first 30 days after surgery in patients with either symptomatic or asymptomatic ...

Heparin is the anticoagulant of choice to prevent thrombosis distally to the clamped internal carotid artery during ... Dextran is commonly used after endarterectomy to prevent platelet adherence ...

For patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy, sonolysis is safe and results in a significant reduction in the composite incidence of ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack, and death within ...