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Outcomes Assessment and Health Care Reform [PDF]

, 2008
Argues for the use of outcomes assessment in measuring cost-effectiveness and quality to capture the overall impact of multi-dimensional treatment strategies and to identify healthcare systems that both adopt appropriate technologies and perform ...
Amitabh Chandra, Elliott S. Fisher, Jonathan S. Skinner   +2 more
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Carotid stenting: is there an operator effect? A pooled analysis from the carotid stenting trialists' collaboration.

, 2013
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Randomized clinical trials show higher 30-day risk of stroke or death after carotid artery stenting compared with surgery. We examined whether operator experience is associated with 30-day risk of stroke or death in the Carotid ...
Algra, A, Algra, A, Algra, Ale, Becquemin, Jean-Pierre, Becquemin, JP, Becquemin, JP, Bonati, Leo H, Bonati, LH, Brown, Martin M, Brown, MM, Brown, MM, Calvet, D, Calvet, David, Carotid Stenting Trialists’ Collaboration, Chatellier, G, Chatellier, G, Chatellier, Gilles, Dobson, J, Dobson, Joanna, Fraedrich, G, Fraedrich, G, Fraedrich, Gustav, Jansen, O, Jansen, O, Jansen, Olav, Mali, Willem P, Mali, WP, Mas, Jean-Louis, Mas, JL, Mas, JL, Ringleb, PA, Ringleb, PA, Ringleb, Peter A   +32 more
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Carotid Artery Stent Continued Expansion Days After Deployment, Without Post Stent Deployment Angioplasty. [PDF]

, 2015
This is a carotid artery stent (CAS) case report, which avoids post-stent deployment angioplasty (Post-SDA), with duplex confirmed continued stent expansion at 1, 3 and 30-day post deployment.
Arhuidese, Isibor, Malas, Mahmoud, Obeid, Tammam, Qazi, Umair   +3 more
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Very Urgent Carotid Endarterectomy Confers Increased Procedural Risk

Stroke, 2012
Background and Purpose— Current Swedish guidelines recommend that carotid endarterectomy should be performed within 14 days of a qualifying neurological event, but it is not clear if very urgent surgery after an event is associated with increased ...
S. Strömberg, J. Gelin, Torun Österberg, G. Bergström, L. Karlström, K. Österberg   +5 more
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Stroke prevention by carotid endarterectomy [PDF]

, 1998
Cerebrovascular disease is the third leading cause of death in Hong Kong and stroke is a major cause of disability in the elderly. With increased life span, rehabilitation and care of patients with disabiling stroke has become a substantial economic ...
Cheng, SWK, Lau, H
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Imaging Carotid Atherosclerosis Plaque Ulceration: Comparison of Advanced Imaging Modalities and Recent Developments. [PDF]

, 2016
Atherosclerosis remains the leading cause of long-term mortality and morbidity worldwide, despite remarkable advancement in its management. Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques are principally responsible for thromboembolic events in various arterial ...
Das, T, Gillard, JH, Graves, MJ, Patterson, AJ, Usman, A, Yuan, J   +5 more
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Experience of Carotid Endarterectomy

Neurologia medico-chirurgica, 1990
The clinical course of 45 patients treated by carotid endarterectomy over the past 5 years is described with emphasis on the following three points: 1) Diagnostic methods, namely digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and B-mode Doppler imaging technique; 2) surgical procedure using an improved shunt tube and surgical instruments; and 3) monitoring ...
T, Shima, S, Matsumura, Y, Okada, M, Nishida, T, Yamada, K, Yamane, S, Okita   +6 more
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Systematic Preoperative Coronary Angiography and Stenting Improves Postoperative Results of Carotid Endarterectomy in Patients with Asymptomatic Coronary Artery Disease: A Randomised Controlled Trial [PDF]

, 2009
Giulio Illuminati, Jean‐Baptiste Ricco, Cesare Greco, Enrico Mangieri, F. Calio', Gianluca Ceccanei, Maria Antonietta Pacilè, Michele Schiariti, Gaetano Tanzilli, Francesco Barillà, Vincenzo Paravati, Giuseppe Mazzesi, Fabio Miraldi, Luigi Tritapepe   +13 more
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Length of carotid stenosis predicts peri-procedural stroke or death and restenosis in patients randomized to endovascular treatment or endarterectomy

International Journal of Stroke, 2013
Background The anatomy of carotid stenosis may influence the outcome of endovascular treatment or carotid endarterectomy. Whether anatomy favors one treatment over the other in terms of safety or efficacy has not been investigated in randomized trials ...
L. Bonati, J. Ederle, J. Dobson, S. Engelter, R. Featherstone, P. Gaines, J. Beard, G. Venables, H. Markus, A. Clifton, P. Sandercock, Martin M. Brown, CAVATAS Investigators   +12 more
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Carotid artery stenting vs. endarterectomy [PDF]

, 2017
Randomized clinical trials have demonstrated that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is superior to medical management for stroke prevention in patients with symptomatic and, to a lesser degree, asymptomatic internal carotid artery stenosis.
Clair, Daniel G., Mukherjee, Debabrata, Roffi, Marco   +2 more
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