What to do if i have carotid artery disease?

It depends: It depends on the severity. Anything along the spectrum of lifestyle changes, to medication, to surgery may be indicated. Speak with your doctor about your particular situation.

See your doctor. : Aspirin often prescribed. Sometimes plavix (clopidogrel) if you are symptomatic. A statin is often needed to control cholesterol and to stabilize the plaque in your neck. Follow up carotid doppler test. Control high blood pressure. Control blood sugar and diabetes. Time to start exercising if ok with your doc. NO smoking please:)

Multiple approaches: Depending on the severity and degree of disease and percent of blockage, a carotid endarectomy may be warranted. However, even with surgery, medical and lifestyle treatments are part of overall treatment plan. Stop smoking, optimize/control your blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes are crucial to long term management. Antiplatelet therapy such as aspirin and Plavix (clopidogrel) may be prescribed

See Vascular Surgeon: Vascular Surgeons are considered "experts" in medical, surgical, & interventional management of carotid artery disease. If the disease is significant (ask you primary doctor), then seek consultation. Medical therapy includes aspirin, statin drug, smoking cessation, low fat diet, & hypertension control. If stenosis is severe then would be considered for surgery or stent of the artery. Ultrasound.

Carotid stenosis: In the carotid arteries the flow of blood goes from being linear to being turbulent due to the "fork in the road" at the bifurcation. This causes the area of the proximal internal and external carotid arteries to develop plaque. This plaque leads to narrowing of the artery. The material that is causing the narrowing is fragile and can break off and cause a stroke.

Vascular disease of : Vascular disease of the carotid artery.Perhaps narrowing of the vessel. The disease may lead to a stroke since the brain is not getting adequate blood flow or perhaps a plaque may break off and lodge in a blood vessel in the brain.