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Extracranial Carotid Artery Stenosis [PDF]

Stroke, 2003
Background— Carotid endarterectomy is the most common surgical procedure used to treat stenosis of the extracranial precerebral carotid artery. Data from several randomized controlled trials are available to help guide its use in specific patient subgroups.
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Long-term risk of carotid restenosis in patients randomly assigned to endovascular treatment or endarterectomy in the Carotid and Vertebral Artery Transluminal Angioplasty Study (CAVATAS): long-term follow-up of a randomised trial [PDF]

, 2009
Background In the Carotid and Vertebral Artery Transluminal Angioplasty Study (CAVATAS), early recurrent carotid stenosis was more common in patients assigned to endovascular treatment than it was in patients assigned to endarterectomy (CEA), raising ...
Sandercock, Peter, Ederle, Jörg, Gaines, Peter A., Sandercock, P, Ederle, Joerg, Brown, Martin M., Venables, Graham S, McCabe, Dominick J. H., Beard, Jonathan D., Markus, Hugh S, Dobson, Joanna, Featherstone, RL, McCabe, Dominick JH, Bonati, Leo H., Venables, Graham S., Gaines, Peter A, Brown, MM, Markus, HS, Venables, GS, McCabe, Dominick J H, Bonati, LH, CAVATAS Investigators, Dobson, J, Gaines, PA, Bonati, Leo H, McCabe, DJ, Clifton, Andrew, Beard, JD, Beard, Jonathan D, Brown, Martin M, Kalra, Lalit, Clifton, A, ?, ?, Featherstone, Roland L., Sellar, Robin, Ederle, J, Featherstone, Roland L, Markus, Hugh S.   +37 more
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Surgery for carotid artery stenosis [PDF]

BMJ, 2004
We need to screen populations to detect stenosis and treat it The US Veterans' Administration study followed by the asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis study (ACAS) and now the asymptomatic carotid stenosis trial (ACST) have all affirmed that elective endarterectomy for patients carefully selected by neurologists and operated on by skilled surgeons ...
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Optimal cut-off criteria for duplex ultrasound for the diagnosis of restenosis in stented carotid arteries: Review and protocol for a diagnostic study [PDF]

, 2009
Background: Carotid angioplasty with stenting is a relatively new, increasingly used, less-invasive treatment for the treatment of symptomatic carotid artery stenosis. It is being evaluated in ongoing and nearly finished randomized trials.
Brown, Martin M., Nederkoorn, Paul J., Paul J Nederkoorn, Nederkoorn Paul J, Brown, M.M., Martin M Brown, Brown, MM, Nederkoorn, P.J., Brown Martin M, Nederkoorn, PJ   +9 more
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Application of Carotid Duplex Ultrasonography in the Surveillance of Carotid Artery Stenosis after Neck Irradiation

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Head and neck cancer (HNC) shares some risk factors with cardiovascular disease. Neck radiotherapy (RT) causes carotid artery injury and stenosis. In HNC patients treated with RT, the prevalence rate of severe (>70%) carotid artery stenosis is >10%, and ...
Deng-Yu Kuo, Yen-Wen Wu, Chen-Hsi Hsieh, Li-Jen Liao, Pei-Wei Shueng   +4 more
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Prevalence of carotid artery disease in candidates undergoing coronary bypass graft seen at Madras Medical Mission

Sahel Medical Journal, 2013
Background: Significant carotid artery disease in candidates going for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) increases the risk of developing peri-operative neurologic events. Therefore, a pre-operative carotid Doppler ultrasonography, which is simple, non-
Abiodun M Adeoye, Ajit S Mullassari, S R Ramkumar, K Latchumanadhas   +3 more
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Carotid Artery Stenosis in Diabetic Patients Presenting With Acute Ischemic Stroke

Pakistan Journal of Medicine and Dentistry, 2020
Background: Stroke is the commonest life-threatening neurological disorder. The Abnormal narrowing or stenosis of the Carotid Artery is a major determinant of ischemic stroke in diabetic patients.
Wishhal Sundar, Lubna Shafi, Rakesh Panjwani, Sameeta, Tahreem Shafi, Ahsan Ashfaq   +5 more
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No evidence that severity of stroke in internal carotid occlusion is related to collateral arteries [PDF]

, 2006
Background/AimThe neurological effects of internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion vary between patients. The authors investigated whether the severity of symptoms in a large group of patients with ipsilateral or/and contralateral ICA occlusion at ...
?, ?, Wardlaw, J M, Mead, G E, Dennis, M S, Lewis, S C   +4 more
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Incidence of carotid artery stenosis in acute ischemic stroke at BMC Hospital Quetta [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Neurology
Background and objectives. This study aimed to explore the prevalence, severity, and distribution of carotid artery stenosis among patients experiencing ischemic strokes. Materials and methods.
Muhammad Essa, Amanullah Kakar, Gul Andam, Noor Ahmed Khoso, Muhammad Saleem, Noman ul Haq, Anjum Farooq, Wazir Akber, Ihsan ul Haq, Paras Laraib, Shafqat Shahzad   +10 more
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Rate of carotid stenosis in diabetic patients with lower limb chronic ischemia

SVU - International Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Background: The existence of a high-grade stenosis in the carotid arteries is thought to increase the risk of stroke in people with asymptomatic carotid illness.
Walid M. Gamal, Ahmed Abdelmoneim Abdelrasheed, Yomna Bahaa El-Den Mohammed Hussein*, Abdelrahiem Fathy Mohammed   +3 more
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