«To date, the focus of diagnosis and management of
carotid artery blockages has been prevention of stroke since that was the only harm that these blockages were thought to cause to patients,» said Brajesh K. Lal, MD, with the VA Maryland Health Care System's Baltimore VA Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Not exact matches
That would be symptomatic patients, those with a serious
blockage of a
carotid artery and a history of at least one previous stroke.
The study shows those apparently healthy individuals identified with increased
carotid plaque burden and coronary
artery calcium were two to three times more likely to have an adverse event such as an
artery blockage, or a piece of plaque becoming loose causing a heart attack or stroke.
They focused on three different types of PVD: arterial disease in the lower extremities, called peripheral
artery disease;
carotid artery stenosis, which is
blockage in the
carotid arteries, the major blood vessels in the neck that supply blood to the brain, neck and face; and abdominal aortic aneurysm, an enlargement of the lower aorta, the major blood vessel that supplies blood to the body.