Dear Dr. Donohue: I am 84 years old, and I have been diagnosed with a carotid artery bulb. It seems to be growing with time. I have had an ultrasound of the artery, and the only diagnosis is some ...

Blacks and men often have thicker artery walls. Normal carotid intima-media thickness for middle-aged, healthy adults is usually between 0.6-0.7 millimeters. ...

The cohort averaged age 69.6 and 65.9% were men. About 20% were symptomatic, 43% had diabetes, 10.5% had had a previous carotid endarterectomy, and 35.9% a prior coronary stenting or angioplasty.

Based on the 45.8% of patients who underwent brain MRI before and 1 day after carotid endarterectomy, all ischemic lesions after surgery were ipsilateral to the intervened internal carotid artery.

MarinHealth performs about 70 to 80 carotid artery surgeries a year, Conway said. He expects that at the start, about 20% of future procedures at the Greenbrae hospital will be done using the TCAR ...