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 ...

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 ...