Clinical Correlates of Severe Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis

In this outpatient study, carotid ultrasonography was used to study 376 stable patients. It was found that patients with severe internal carotid stenoses had a clinical profile that was different from those with lesser degrees of internal carotid disease, and from normal patients. Such a profile may help alert clinicians to the possibility of severe internal carotid disease in their patients.