Magnetic resonance imaging is a quick, noninvasive yet precise alternative to catheter-based angiography for assessing atherosclerosis of the peripheral vascular system. As a noninvasive method it ...

Safer, noninvasive imaging techniques are replacing intra-arterial angiography for the assessment of carotid artery stenosis. To assess the accuracy of the various noninvasive methods, Wardlaw et al.

Moyamoya Disease: Intracranial MRAs; (Left) AP view; (Right) Rostral-caudal projection. Note that these scans are extremely abnormal (compare these scans to a normal AP and rostral-caudal intracranial ...

A 52-year-old woman is noted to have a right-sided carotid bruit on physical examination. Her clinical history is unremarkable. A duplex ultrasound study of the carotid arteries demonstrates a severe ...

Common Carotid Angiogram. This projection is similar to the standard neck projection in MRA - the image is centered over where the common carotid artery bifurcates into the internal carotid and ...

Most carotid-artery stenting or endarterectomy is done for asymptomatic cases. The large CREST-2 randomized trial now shows that endarterectomy holds no stroke and mortality benefit over intensive ...