The management of extracranial cerebrovascular disease, including carotid endarterectomy
(CEA), carotid stenting and medical management is performed by several specialists …

This review of the literature analyzes publications over the past five years on various
problems associated with carotid endarterectomy: 1. Is the eversion or classical technique of …

Objective There is discordance between reviews comparing eversion endarterectomy (EvE)
with conventional carotid endarterectomy (CEA) mostly because under this term various …

Objective Closure of the artery during carotid endarterectomy (CEA) can be done with or
without a patch, or performed with the eversion technique, while the use of intra-operative …

Background: Cardiovascular surgery is confronted by a lack of suitable materials for patch
repair. Acellular animal tissues serve as an abundant source of promising biomaterials. The …

Postoperative adhesions are a very common and serious complication in cardiac surgery,
and the development of an effective anti-adhesion membrane showing resistance to the …

Neointimal hyperplasia remains an obstacle after vascular interventions. Programmed death‐
1 (PD‐1) antibody treatment decreases tumor cell proliferation and secretion of inflammatory …

Background Which type of closure after carotid endarterectomy (CEA), whether primary,
patching, or eversion, will provide the optimal results has remained controversial. In the …

Surgical site infections (SSIs) of groin wounds are a common and potentially preventable
cause of morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs in vascular surgery. Our aim was to define …

Abstract Objective The Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) is the largest registry of vascular
surgical procedures and as such is capable of distinguishing small but important differences …