Sentences with phrase «blocked carotid»

Is it possible to clear the blockage in a fully - blocked carotid?
His doctor as well as other info I've looked up online & in books suggests he will need to live with a blocked carotid as there is no way to remove the plaque since they will not perform surgery (too risky) nor use the super powered drug to remove blockage (I was told they only use this when there is still some blood flow immediately following a stroke).
In October 2007, a partially blocked carotid artery in Kennedy's neck was discovered during a routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination.
When I was 27 years old, he underwent surgery for blocked carotid arteries in his neck.

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Strokes often result when accumulated plaque breaks off from a narrowed section of an internal carotid artery and blocks smaller vessels in the brain.
In one, the carotid arteries were blocked with a suture for one hour, much as a blood clot blocks the flow of blood to the brain in a stroke.
My husband suffered a stroke this past December due to a «solidly blocked left carotid artery».
Their relationship takes an unfortunate break when Anne suffers a block in a carotid artery, a stroke which at first finds her simply zoning out of her breakfast conversation with George, yet not remembering those moments in which she was zonked.
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