title: Ask the doctor. During a recent appointment, my cardiologist heard a sound in my neck and sent me for a ultrasound, which showed a narrowing in my carotid artery. The doctor said this means I'm at risk for a stroke. Because I'm already taking all the right medicines, his only recommendation was getting another ultrasound in a year. But if the narrowing gets worse and I have a stroke, won't that be too late?
authors.forename: Deepak L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Bhatt
mesh_terms: D002339:Carotid Arteries; D016893:Carotid Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians; D012306:Risk; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control