Tag: carotid revascularisation

Contego Medical’s Neuroguard IEP system receives US FDA approval for carotid...

Contego Medical today announced the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) premarket approval (PMA) of the Neuroguard IEP system for carotid revascularisation. The company shares...
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InspireMD congratulates CREST-2 investigators on completion of trial enrolment

InspireMD today congratulated the lead investigators on the completion of enrolment in the CREST-2 clinical trials. The CGuard embolic prevention stent system (EPS), utilising...

New data underscore physician experience levels required to derive benefit from...

Data from a new study that maps out the levels at which adverse postoperative events decrease following transfemoral carotid artery stenting (TfCAS) based on...

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,...

No relationship found between DW-MRI lesions and long-term stroke risk following...

A secondary analysis of existing clinical trial data has indicated that new ischaemic brain lesions detected via diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) following carotid...

Rates of stroke, death and myocardial infarction post-TCAR do not differ...

While sex disparities regarding the outcomes of carotid revascularisation have “long been a concern”, new prospective data published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery...

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...

Carotid endarterectomy associated with less reintervention than stenting in first six...

A durability study that looks at reintervention risk among patients treated with carotid endarterectomy (CEA) versus carotid artery stenting (CAS) proce­dures established that CEA...

Interim data find “no evidence of benefit” for carotid revascularisation additional...

Interim results from the ECST-2 randomised controlled trial (RCT) have shown no evidence that carotid stenosis patients with a low-to-intermediate stroke risk, treated with...