DEAR MAYO CLINIC: One of my dearest friends has a grandmother who has 100 percent blockage in one of the arteries in her neck and 75 percent in the other. Her doctors have told her that there is ...

Your arteries play an important role in your cardiovascular health, transporting blood from the heart to all of the body’s cells. And that’s especially true for your carotid (neck) arteries, since ...

Dear Dr. Roach • In December 2013 I had a blood clot in my left eye. It blocked my vision and then passed after about 25 minutes. My doctor had many tests done, and one indicated that I have plaque in ...

Trivedi said, “Many strokes are caused by a blocked carotid artery in the neck. This is when a carotid endarterectomy (CEA) or a transcarotid artery revascularization would possibly be beneficial.

Rakesh Roshan took to Instagram to share a sudden health scare he recently experienced. He posted a picture with the staff of the hospital where he underwent treatment. Rakesh shared that he had ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, a leading liberal voice in the United States, had preventive surgery in Boston on Friday to unclog a partially blocked carotid artery in his neck ...

Our lives are filled with plastic, in everything from packaging to textiles. New research suggests “micronanoplastics” might be accumulating in arteries, with potentially serious consequences for our ...

A team of specialists at Prasad Hospitals, Nacharam, successfully performed a complex Carotid Web Stenting procedure, saving the life of a 62-year-old man suffering from a rare vascular condition that ...