The most effective treatment for carotid artery stenosis is carotid endarterectomy (CEA). To date, randomized trials of this procedure versus best medical care have excluded patients aged 80 years ...

Endarterectomy (also called carotid endarterectomy, carotid artery surgery) is a surgical procedure used to open a blocked or narrowed carotid artery located in the neck. This procedure is used to ...

Dextran is commonly used after endarterectomy to prevent platelet adherence to the endarterectomy site. Although dextran has been demonstrated to reduce emboli detected on TCD ultrasonography ...