Deans' stroke musings: Atherosclerotic plaque in the left carotid artery is more vulnerable than in the right

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Atherosclerotic plaque in the left carotid artery is more vulnerable than in the right

I can see no use for this knowledge, even as it is an interesting factoid. My right carotid artery dissected, left one was clear.

Atherosclerotic plaque in the left carotid artery is more vulnerable than in the right

The authors compared atherosclerotic plaque prevalence, severity, and composition between left and right carotid arteries. Carotid atherosclerotic plaque size and composition are not symmetrically distributed. Predominance of intraplaque hemorrhage in left–sided carotid plaques suggests a greater vulnerability as opposed to right–sided plaques, which are more calcified and therefore considered more stable.

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