Covering clinical assessment, techniques and devices, medical treatment, and more, Angioplasty and Stentiong of the Carotid and Supra-Aortic Trunks reviews the state of the art in CAS.

Angioplasty and Stentiong of the Carotid and Supra-Aortic Trunks summarizes current, relevant knowledge about endovascular interventional therapy for carotid disease.

Angioplasty and Stentiong of the Carotid and Supra-Aortic Trunks presents a broad overview of approaches and techniques, a discussion of protection devices and potential pitfalls, and coverage of methods to reduce potential complications, select and enlarge indications, and improve short- and long-term results.

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Contents:

1. Carotid artery stenosis: natural history, histopathology
   1. Epidemiology and pathophysiology of carotid artery disease
   2. Histopathology of carotid stenosis: correlation between the types of palque and the risks of neurological complications

2. Supra-aortic arteries: anatomy, radiological anatomy
   3. Anatomy and pathophysiology of supra-aortic vessels
   4. Angiographic anatomy of the craniocervical arterial system
   5. What you really need to know about the intracerebral circulation: the importance of collateral circulation assessment

3. Imaging techniques
   6. Geometric effects of carotid stents
   7. Imaging of the carotid arteries
   8. Value of magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomographic brain scans for carotid angioplasty and stenting
   9. Doppler ultrasound and carotid angioplasty: carotid ultrasonography and transcranial Doppler
   10. The value of transcranial Doppler ultrasonography before, during and after surgery for carotid occlusive disease
   11. Transcranial Doppler monitoring for emboli during artery stenting
   12. Methods for the evaluation of carotid stenosis
   13. Ultrasonic carotid plaque characterization
   14. Plaque structure and clinical events: determining which lesions can be stented and the risk of emboli
   15. Importance of carotid plaque characterization before carotid angioplasty and stenting: The ICAROS Study
   16. Role of intravascular ultrasound in carotid angioplasty and stenting

4. Clinical assessment
   17. Neorological and neuropsychological evaluation before and after carotid angioplasty and stenting
   18. Cardiac assessment in patients with carotid artery disease

5. Carotid artery stenosis: surgery
   19. Is carotid surgery still the gold standard in carotid intervention?
   20. The benefits of carotid endarterectomy for symptomatic and asymptomatic patients as proven in prospective randomized trials
   21. High-risk carotid endarterectomy patients: identifying an appropriate population for carotid angioplasty and stenting

6. Clinical trials
   22. Carotid angioplasty and stenting: clinical experience and role of clinical trials
   23. Carotid angioplasty and stenting: current clinical trials and value of randomized trials
   24. CAVATAS: what have we learnt?
   25. A prospective registry of carotid angioplasty and stenting

7. Indications for carotid angioplasty and stenting
   26. Candidates for carotid revascularization
   27. Indications and contraindications for carotid stenting
   28. Asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis
   29. Identification of patients at risk for periprocedural neurological deficits associated with carotid angioplasty and stenting
   30. Interventional treatment of carotid artery dissection
   31. Management of concomittant coronary and carotid disease
   32. In-stent restenosis after carotid angioplasty and stenting: incidence and management
   33. Angioplasty and stenting in non-acute occlusions of the internal carotid artery
   34. Extracranial carotid aneurysm: interventional treatment
   35. Carotid stenting for stroke complicating carotid endarterectomy

8. Technique devices
   36. Practical guide to current practice of carotid angioplasty
   37. Carotid acces techniques: an algorithmic approach
   38. Strategies of success for difficult-to-access carotid arteries
   39. Equipment required for carotid angioplasty and stenting: tips and tricks
   40. Carotid angioplasty and stenting under cerebral protection
   41. Different cerebral protection devices
   42. Various in vitro models for the analysis of cerebral protection devices
   43. Dark side of distal protection devices
   44. Cerebral protection: can only the poststenting dilatation phase be protected?
   45. Defining and minimizing the risk of complications during carotid artery interventions
   46. Avoidance and management of complications in cervical carotid revascularization
   47. Optimizing the outcome of carotid stenting: which stent, technique and drug?
   48. Carotid angioplasty and tenting: indications for covered stents
   49. Carotid stents: an engineering viewpoint

9. Medical treatment
   50. Prevention of ischaemic stroke
   51. Carotid artery disease in India
   52. Carotid stenosis: medical treatment
   53. Risk factors modification and stroke prevention

10. Clinical results
    54. Immediate and late clinical outcomes of carotid angioplasty and stenting in patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis: a five-year prospective analysis
    55. In search of the perfect carotid stent: long-term follow-up comparing balloon-mounted and self-expanding stents
    56. Cervical carotid artery stent placement: review of current status and trends
    57. Carotid angioplasty under cerebral protection with the PercuSurge GuardWire device
    58. Angioplasty and stenting of carotid and supra-aortic trunks using the NeoroShield filter: description and first results
    59. The AngioGuard XP emboli capture guidewire system
    60. The use of the Spider embolic protection device in the endovascular treatment of carotid artery stenosis
    61. Carotid angioplasty and stenting with the MSD filter
    62. Trap filter: description and clinical results
    63. Parodi antiembolization system: description and first results
    64. Carotid angioplasty and stenting with cerebral protection
    65. Updated review of the global carotid artery stent registry
    66. Carotid angioplasty and stenting: the EUROCAST registry

11. Complications: intracranial endovascular therapy
    67. Management of neurological complications from carotid artery stent placement
    68. Endovascular therapy for acute stroke
    69. Stent-assisted revascularization for the treatment of intracranial atherosclerotic disease
    70. Elective endovascular revascularization of the intracranial cerebral arteries
    71. Intracranial stents
    72. The stroke unit

12. Other supra-aortic occlusive arterial diseases: endovascular treatment
    73. Intracranial stenting for cerebrovascular pathology
    74. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the subclavian arteries
    75. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stenting of extracranial vertebral artery stenosis
    76. Inflammatory arteritis in supra-aortic vessels: endovascular treatment