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Carotid Endarterectomy: A Review
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 1991The carotid endarterectomy procedure has provided an invaluable option in the management of patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic carotid artery disease. The criteria for surgical interventions vary from different institutions as well as the mortality and morbidity, but, for a select patient population, it is a viable alternative to conservative ...
S M, Johnson, B, Anderson
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Emergency Carotid Endarterectomy
Cerebrovascular Diseases, 1999<i>Objective:</i> Evaluation of the therapeutical efficacy of emergency carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in neurologically unstable patients. <i>Patients and Methods:</i> Three groups of a consecutive series of 71 emergency CEAs performed from 1980 to July 1998 were classified: (1) acute onset of severe stroke (n = 16), (2 ...
H H, Eckstein +9 more
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The Appropriateness of Carotid Endarterectomy
New England Journal of Medicine, 1988Carotid endarterectomy is a commonly performed but controversial procedure. We developed from the literature a list of 864 possible reasons for performing carotid endarterectomy, and asked a panel of nationally known experts to rate the appropriateness of each indication using a modified Delphi technique.
C M, Winslow +5 more
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Extraluminal Carotid Endarterectomy
Archives of Surgery, 1972Twenty-five patients have undergone carotid endarterectomy by extraluminal dissection of the plaque. An incision is made into the media of the common and internal carotid arteries onto, but not through, the plaque to be excised. The plaque can then be dissected from the carotid bifurcation prior to entrance into the lumen of the carotid artery.
G B, Bradham, R R, Bradham
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Carotid Endarterectomy in the Elderly
Annals of Vascular Surgery, 1992The records of 146 patients 80 years of age or older who underwent 183 carotid endarterectomy operations from 1964 through 1990 were reviewed to determine surgical risk. The indications for operation were asymptomatic patients with carotid stenosis (n = 36); ipsilateral transient ischemic attacks (n = 46); ipsilateral stroke (n = 28); ipsilateral ...
R L, Treiman +6 more
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Outcomes of Carotid Endarterectomy
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1991To the editors: The article by Brook and colleagues (1) contains serious methodologic flaws that make some of the findings questionable and others reprehensible.
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