management
Last reviewed 01/2018
Conservative management involves reduction of risk factors, ie reducing smoking, loss of weight and taking more exercise.
Medical options include aspirin and drug treatments which improve the cardiac output.
Surgical options are variable, and depend very heavily on where the lesion is. They include:
- angioplasty - not suitable in carotid arteries
- end arterectomy - usually carotids
- bypass graft
- amputation