Tag: best medical therapy

Carotid endarterectomy ‘remains useful and relevant’ in era of improving medical...

Findings from a retrospective analysis presented at the recent European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) annual meeting (24–27 September, Kraków, Poland) provide evidence that—for...

Smoking cessation remains a “ripe target” for improved medication adherence in...

New data presented at the 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM; 19–22 June, Chicago, USA) have revealed poor overall rates of medical therapy adherence in...

Seven-year data provide “compelling evidence” that intracranial stenting does not confer...

Seven-year data from the Chinese CASSISS trial have, in the investigators’ view, provided “compelling evidence” that percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stenting (PTAS) plus medical...

ISC 2024 examines TCAR ‘explosion’ alongside advances in intensive medical therapy

This year’s International Stroke Conference (ISC; 7–9 February, Phoenix, USA) hosted discussions on the current state of play in carotid stenosis treatment—and, most notably,...

Observational study addresses ‘ongoing debate’ around intervention in asymptomatic carotid patients

Alessandro Gregio (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy) recently presented midterm results from the Carotid asymptomatic stenosis observational study during the first of two Society...

Medical therapy improvements mean “the time has come” to reconduct prior...

“The time has definitely come to look at the evidence, and redo these studies,” posited Alun Davies (Imperial College London, London, UK), putting forward...

Thrombectomy appears comparable to medical management in treating ACA occlusion stroke

Mechanical thrombectomy appears to be a safe and technically feasible treatment option for ischaemic strokes caused by primary isolated anterior cerebral artery (ACA) occlusions...