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Contact: Erin Prather Stafford
erin.pratherstafford@utsouthwestern.edu
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UT Southwestern Medical Center
Caption: Dr. Ethan Halm, new chief of the William T. and Gay F. Solomon Division of General Internal Medicine, helped identify several factors that can affect whether a patient dies or suffers a stroke after carotid-artery surgery. The procedure, one of the most common types of vascular surgeries performed in the US, involves opening the carotid artery in the neck and removing harmful plaque to restore blood flow to the brain.
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