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The patients underwent carotid endarterectomies, a procedure in which the artery is opened and the plaque is cleaned out.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

Medicare patients in McAllen received forty per cent more surgery, almost twice as many bladder scopes and heart studies, and two to three times as many pacemakers, cardiac bypass operations, carotid endarterectomies, and coronary stents.

From The New Yorker • May 4, 2015

A Rand Corp. review of carotid endarterectomies, operations aimed at clearing blocked neck arteries, found nearly a third of the procedures "inappropriate."

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead he combines bypass grafts with the gas endarterectomies in what his operating team calls a "gas and pass" procedure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rand studies have found that in some regions of the country as many as 44% of coronary bypass surgeries and 64% of artery-clearing carotid endarterectomies were either unnecessary or highly questionable.

From Time Magazine Archive