Tag: JVS
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...
Single-centre analysis suggests improved longer-term outcomes with endarterectomy versus TCAR
A large, single-centre analysis has found that, despite parity between the two procedures in terms of perioperative clinical outcomes, carotid endarterectomy (CEA) was associated...
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...
Young endarterectomy patients more likely to experience restenosis and late neurological...
Data from the US Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) have indicated that younger patients (aged ≤55 years) who undergo a carotid endarterectomy (CEA) procedure face an...
Dual antiplatelet therapy linked to better post-TCAR outcomes versus other drug...
Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) has demonstrated improved clinical outcomes, including reduced in-hospital stroke and mortality risks, compared to other medication regimens in carotid artery...
Distal embolic protection linked to significantly better outcomes in carotid stenting
Distal embolic protection using a filter has been associated with improved transfemoral carotid artery stenting (tfCAS) outcomes in terms of in-hospital stroke and death...
Carotid stenting demonstrates comparable short- and long-term results to endarterectomy
Pooled patient-level data from more than 2,500 asymptomatic, non-octogenarian subjects have shown that carotid artery stenting (CAS) achieved comparable short- and long-term results to...
