One of the most characteristic types of attacks is amaurosis fugax (i.e., transient monocular blindness) which results from reduced blood flow through the ophthalmic artery, the first major branch off ...

In the neck, each of them branches off into an internal carotid artery and an external carotid artery. The position of the branched carotid arteries is where a person can feel the pulse in their ...

Atherosclerotic carotid artery stenosis is relatively frequent in older patients and is a major cause of disabling stroke or death. Carotid endarterectomy is currently considered the standard of ...

Carotid Artery Dissection: (Left) Right Carotid Angiogram at the level of the carotid bifurcation; (Middle) Right Internal Carotid Angiogram, lateral view; (Right) Right Internal Carotid Angiogram, AP ...

Carotid artery disease, also called carotid artery stenosis, occurs when the carotid arteries, the main blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the brain, become narrowed. The narrowing of the ...

Transient monocular blindness associated with internal-carotid-artery ... into the cranium than into the distal branches of the external carotid artery. All strokes were evaluated by the outcomes ...

The condition has no known cause but links to tenderness at the point where the two branches of the carotid artery divide. In rare cases, it may be due to nose and throat cancer, chemotherapy ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- About 38,000 strokes may be attributed to extracranial internal carotid artery stenosis annually in the United States, new research from the University of Cincinnati shows.

Endovascular treatment of extracranial carotid artery stenosis has been performed for over a decade. To date, however, CAS has only been compared with CEA in a few small randomized controlled ...

For this reason, many patients with carotid artery disease also have coronary artery disease. Your internal carotid arteries carry blood to your brain. The most common cause of strokes is when a piece ...