Carotid artery disease, also called carotid artery stenosis, occurs when the carotid arteries, the main blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the brain, become narrowed. The narrowing of the ...

The posterior cerebral arteries branch off from the basilar artery. The left and right PCAs form the longest sections of the ...

When surgical intervention is needed, carotid endarterectomy involves removing plaque from the artery, while carotid stenting ...

Atherosclerotic carotid artery ... with Acute Right-Sided Paresis and Language Disturbance. Magnetic resonance angiography reveals a high-grade symptomatic carotid stenosis on the left (arrow ...

To date, the Carotid and Vertebral Artery Transluminal Angioplasty Study (CAVATAS) 3 is the only prospective randomized study comparing best medical therapy with endovascular stenting for patients ...

The typical murmur of aortic stenosis is a high-pitched, "diamond shaped" crescendo-decrescendo, midsystolic ejection murmur heard best at the right upper ... one’s own carotid artery while ...