Filters keep coffee fresh, water clean, and cars running smoothly. Now, a team of Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) doctors and researchers are using that same concept to prevent strokes, by placing tiny filters in patients’ carotid arteries at each side of the neck to trap blood clots so they can’t reach the brain. HHS is the first hospital site in North America and most of the world to perform this innovative new procedure to investigate whether …
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