On admission, his body temperature was 101°F (38.5°C). Tenderness at the site of the right carotid bifurcation was confirmed during palpation. Laboratory testing revealed a white blood cell ...

Carotid artery disease is a common cause of stroke. It occurs when plaque builds up inside the carotid arteries. These are the arteries that supply oxygen-rich blood to the brain. There are two ...

Using patient-averaged clinical data, Wild created two models of this carotid bifurcation area. The first model, based on ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2008;6(2):261-274. The European Bifurcation Club admits the importance of angulation as a prognostic feature of a bifurcation lesion, which is not mentioned in the ...

THE patient with signs and symptoms of cerebro-vascular insufficiency presents specific problems relating to diagnosis and treatment. Realizing that widely divergent opinions exist regarding the ...

Figure 1: Schematic drawing of an internal carotid artery dissection. The main dissection plane sometimes lies between the media and the adventitia, causing an aneurysmal outpouching of the ...

Your doctor will pass the Embolic Protection System into the carotid artery to help capture any plaque or particles that could travel into the smaller vessels in the brain. You should not feel any ...

Over the last few decades, numerical bifurcation methods have been extended and applied to a number of flow problems to identify critical conditions for fluid instabilities to occur. This book ...

You might have heard the term “bifurcation” if you’ve been around PCIe, especially in mining or PC tinkering communities. This is splitting a PCIe slot into multiple PCIe links, and as you ...

For discovering the essential structural and redox potential landscapes that are required to generate high-efficiency electron bifurcation reactions in flavoproteins. The Electron Bifurcation team has ...

Carotid artery disease, also called carotid artery stenosis, occurs when the carotid arteries, the main blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the brain, become narrowed. The narrowing of the ...