Patients Who Have Material Causing Narrowing In Neck Artery Removed Rather Than Angioplasty Have Lower Chance Of Narrowing Recurring And Stroke

Two Articles published Online First and in the October edition of The Lancet Neurology provide long-term data that show that, for patients with a narrowing of the carotid artery supplying blood to brain (carotid stenosis), removal of the material causing the narrowing(endarterectomy [surgery]) could be a better option than balloon angioplasty with or without stenting (endovascular treatment [ET]).