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He presented a first transient ischemic attack and paroxysmal atrial fibrilation 2 years before, when anticoagulation was started on top of his antihypertensive medication. At that time, carotid Doppler ultrasound revealed nonobstructive atherosclerosis and statin therapy was started, according to current guidelines, in order to lower the initial 70 mg\/dL LDL-cholesterol level to under 55 mg\/dL. Cardio-embolism was considered the mechanism of stroke at that time. Despite all the medication and the maintenance of LDL below 50 mg\/dL, carotid atherosclerosis evolved to an important left internal carotid artery stenosis and transient ischemic attacks reappeared two years later. Carotid stenosis was then considered the most probable cause, although elucidating the exact mechanism was difficult. After medical treatment and subsequent endarterectomy, the patient had a good outcome. The progressive course of atheromatosis, despite maximal medication, urged us to look for further proper measures of prevention. No chronic disease was detected during the postoperative phase, except for early-stage periodontal disease, for which adequate preventive measures were applied. Considering that subclinical inflammation induced by periodontal disease can induce the progression of atherosclerosis, chronic treatment with colchicine was added, with a favorable outcome.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/life15060831","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,22]],"date-time":"2025-05-22T08:49:57Z","timestamp":1747903797000},"page":"831","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Unusual Evolution of Carotid Atherosclerosis in a Patient with Transient Ischemic Attack"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-0855-938X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Corina","family":"Cinezan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Disciplines, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea, 410073 Oradea, Romania"},{"name":"Clinical County Emergency Hospital Bihor, 410169 Oradea, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-9229-2656","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Camelia Bianca","family":"Rus","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Disciplines, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea, 410073 Oradea, Romania"},{"name":"Clinical County Emergency Hospital Bihor, 410169 Oradea, Romania"},{"name":"Doctoral School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Oradea, 410087 Oradea, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ioana Tiberia","family":"Ilias","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Disciplines, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea, 410073 Oradea, Romania"},{"name":"Clinical County Emergency Hospital Bihor, 410169 Oradea, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alexandra","family":"Comanescu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical County Emergency Hospital Bihor, 410169 Oradea, Romania"},{"name":"Department of Psycho-Neuroscience and Recovery, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Oradea, 410073 Oradea, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alexandra","family":"Cinezan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Dental Medicine, Iuliu Ha\u021bieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Cluj-Napoca, 400012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"145","DOI":"10.5853\/jos.2018.00773","article-title":"Recent Advances in Primary and Secondary Prevention of Atherosclerotic Stroke","volume":"20","author":"Tsivgoulis","year":"2018","journal-title":"J. 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