If the narrowing of the carotid arteries becomes severe enough to block blood flow, or a piece of atherosclerotic plaque breaks off and obstructs blood flow to the brain, a stroke may occur.

A CT neck demonstrated a large (31×29×25 mm) mycotic pseudoaneurysm of the left common carotid artery (CCA) arising 36 mm from the carotid bifurcation with a linear foreign body, suspected to be a ...

Precise segmentation of the common carotid artery (CCA) is crucial for understanding its geometry, aiding in the assessment and management of carotid atherosclerosis. The dataset has been taken from ...

Carotid artery disease occurs when plaque builds up inside the carotid arteries in the neck. There are two common carotid arteries, one on the right and the other on the left, that divide into ...

gmail.com Vertebral artery origin anomalies are typically incidental findings during angiography or post mortem examination. We present two cases of vertebral origin from the right common carotid ...

stent placement directly into the carotid artery and (2) neuroprotection through flow reversal, achieved by connecting a side arm of the arterial sheath to a low-pressure vein in the leg while ...

PSVs and end-diastolic velocities of the ICA and common carotid artery were recorded. Patients with PSVs of the ICA of > 140 cm/s underwent carotid computed tomographic (CT) angiography.

Symptomatic common carotid artery and/or innominate artery disease is uncommon. Management options for proximal common carotid stenosis include open surgical reconstruction, transfemoral carotid ...

gmail.com A 22-year-old man had cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and his angiogram incidentally revealed an absent left common carotid artery with bovine origin of the left external carotid artery.

mail.tsinghua.edu.cn Background Open surgery and the retrograde endovascular approach via the distal left common carotid artery (LCCA) have some limitations in LCCA ostial stenosis treatment. The ‘no ...

Carotid artery disease can be diagnosed based on your medical history and the results of an exam and tests, including: Carotid duplex ultrasound, the most common imaging tests to diagnose carotid ...