Blocked carotid arteries is a silent disease and it is sometimes found during ultrasound of the neck and head. Surgery of blocked carotid arteries is called endarterectomy and its main goal is to prevent a stroke from occuring in the future....
Arteries of the Head and Neck in Giant Cell Arteritis: A Pathological Study to Show the Pattern of Arterial Involvement In patients dying during the active phase of giant cell arteritis there was a very high incidence of severe involvement of the superficial temporal, vertebral, ophthalmic, and ...
After the stroke, physicians scan the carotid arteries, the two largeblood vesselsin the neck that provide much of the brain's blood supply. If one of these arteries is more than 50 percent blocked withfatty depositscalled plaque, doctors commonly recommend surgical removal of the plaque a few...
CLEARING ARTERIES IN NECK IS FOUND TO PREVENT STROKESLINDY WASHBURN, Record Staff Writer
Clearing the carotid , Stents could give high-risk patients hope for blocked neck arteriesDoug Gillert