Tag: carotid interventions
Carotid intervention linked to improved survival versus medical management in symptomatic...
New study data suggest that the interventional treatment of symptomatic carotid artery disease may result in an improved rate of age-adjusted overall survival compared...
AVS and Jacobs Institute partner to study Pulse IVL system
Amplitude Vascular Systems (AVS), developer of the Pulse intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) platform, and the Jacobs Institute, a non-profit medical device innovation centre in Buffalo,...
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...
Revascularisation capable of improving mood in depressed patients with carotid atherosclerosis
A prospective study has demonstrated that carotid intervention can improve mood in depressed patients with advanced carotid disease, in addition to enabling cognitive improvements...
More research needed but lithotripsy plus TCAR ‘an answer’ in certain...
Earlier this year, researchers debuted single-centre experiences indicating that intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) may be able to expand transcarotid artery revascularisation (TCAR) into patients with...
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...
Vascular community split over “death” of traditional carotid stenting
A debate between two prominent carotid interventionists—Peter Schneider (University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA) and Domenico Valenti (King's College London, London, UK)—on...
