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Carotid Artery blockage - how to manage?
Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases | Last Active: Oct 28 5:46am | Replies (6)Comment receiving replies
Thank you for posting your experience. It confirms what I had read on line that I had wondered about if it was correct which was exactly what you experienced - the development of collateral circulation even if one has completed blockage of one of their carotid arteries. It's encouraging to know that even with complete blockage of one of the carotid arteries it doesn't necessarily mean you will have stroke, although I don't know how rare it is for someone to have a complete blockage of one of the arteries and remain asymptomatic.
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@elliott1953
My understanding, perhaps wrong, is that the reason they will not do surgery with complete blockage is that the complete blockage decreases the chance of a stroke because of the absence of blood flow, and that if they were to do surgery to clear it that would in fact increase the chances of a stroke, because they are opening back up the flow. At any rate, I will take my life now, so far the blockage seems to have no obvious effect, knock on wood.