Life Line Screening carries a mission that feels timeless-bringing awareness and early detection of disease to the forefront ...

The following medical subject heading (MeSH) terms and boolean operators were used to identify studies: carotid artery intima–media thickness ... The study involved independent authors in search, ...

In terms of the role of carotid ultrasound in the risk assessment of IS, the focus has shifted from merely concentrating on the degree of stenosis to paying more attention to the status of carotid ...

If a blood clot forms in the coronary arteries, this will cause a heart attack. And if it happens in an artery supplying blood to your brain, such as the carotid arteries in the neck, it will lead to ...

TUPELO — Carotid artery disease, a progressive buildup of calcium deposits and cholesterol in the primary artery supplying blood to the brain, poses a risk of stroke, but there are a few ways to ...

More tests showed that her left circumflex artery "had a 99% blockage." A piece of plaque that had built up in the artery had detached, blocking nearly all blood flow. "They told my family I was ...

Glenn Hirsch and Alexander Sandhu discuss how screening previously acquired non-gated chest CTs can help improve statin prescription rates and optimize preventive care. Sandhu AT, Rodriguez F, Ngo S, ...

Objective: Intraplaque neovascularization is a marker of plaque vulnerability and is used to predict the risk of future vascular events in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis; however, its ...