These guidelines will be updated every four years. Vascular centres are encouraged to audit
implementations made as a result of the guidelines. Audit cycles should be repeated and …

Atherosclerotic stenosis of the internal carotid artery is an important cause of stroke. The aim
of this guideline is to analyse the evidence pertaining to medical, surgical and endovascular …

Intracranial vessel wall (VW) MRI has become widely available in clinical practice, providing
multiple uses for evaluation of neurovascular diseases. The Vessel Wall Imaging Study …

Cerebrovascular diseases are a leading cause of disability and death worldwide. The
definition of stroke etiology is mandatory to predict outcome and guide therapeutic …

The management of patients with symptomatic chronic total occlusion (CTO) of the internal
carotid artery (ICA) is controversial. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate …

Objective To assess the risk of recurrent ipsilateral ischemic stroke in patients with
symptomatic near-occlusion with and without full collapse. Methods Included were …

Background Guidelines recommend treating patients with an internal carotid artery near
occlusion (ICANO) with best medical therapy (BMT) based on weak evidence …

Abstract The European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR) is the European
specialist society of cardiac and vascular imaging. This society's highest priority is the …

Carotid near-occlusion is a frequently overlooked diagnosis when CTA examinations are
assessed in routine practice. To evaluate the potential value of phase-contrast MR imaging …

Introduction Carotid near-occlusion (CNO) is a variant of severe stenosis where there is a
distal luminal collapse of the internal carotid artery (ICA) beyond a tight stenosis. This study …