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 ...

Direct treatment options exist for only two types: pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH ... balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA), pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA), and certain medications.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of pulmonary hypertension, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) represents a discrete group (group 4) distinct from ...

Archie et al [14] reported 9% of patients had severe (>70%) stenosis of the external carotid artery following carotid endarterectomy; and found that the repair of severely stenosed or occluded ...