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 ...

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found the key was to block the artery supplying the brain covering.

Every year, nearly 800,000 people have a stroke in the United States, and it is the fifth-leading cause of death and the most ...

Figure 3. Images from a brain angiogram showing a large brain blood vessel blockage. Figure 3a: The blue arrows outline the internal carotid artery coursing from the neck to the brain and the red ...