Up to date, new stents in carotid artery treatment

Abstract

Paulo Eduardo Ocke Reis, Joao Rocha Neves

The development of endovascular techniques, their diffusion around the word and the idea of less invasive techniques led to the improvement of devices involved in carotid artery stenting (CAS). Stent implantation with the concept of brain protection represented a historic advance [1-3]. It is being widely performed in patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic disease, at high risk for carotid endarterectomy [1-5].

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