Stenting, but not endarterectomy, significantly reduced stroke risk compared with intensive medical therapy alone.

In a pair of randomized, observer-blinded clinical trials designed to evaluate optimal management of asymptomatic carotid ...

CREST-2 showed that, among patients with high-grade carotid stenosis without recent neurological symptoms, the addition of stenting led to significantly better outcomes than intensive medical ...

InspireMD (NSPR) announced the recent presentation and publication of CREST-2 data which demonstrated positive clinical outcomes for carotid ...

The results of the ongoing CREST-2 study in patients with asymptomatic, high-grade carotid artery stenosis are still several years away. But new data out of a companion registry suggest that whatever ...

CREST-2 (clinicaltrials.gov number: NCT02089217) is a pair of parallel, actively recruiting procedural trials to prevent stroke comparing: 1) carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and intensive medical ...