Pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: state-of-the-art 2020
Pulmonary Circulation, 2021 Pulmonary endarterectomy is the treatment of choice for patients with operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) as it is potentially curative.
Michael M. Madani
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Adjusting for bias introduced by instrumental variable estimation in the Cox Proportional Hazards Model [PDF]
Biostatistics, 2017, 2017 Instrumental variable (IV) methods are widely used for estimating average treatment effects in the presence of unmeasured confounders. However, the capability of existing IV procedures, and most notably the two-stage residual inclusion (2SRI) procedure recommended for use in nonlinear contexts, to account for unmeasured confounders in the Cox ...
Goodney, Philip P. +4 more
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Neuropsychological performance after carotid endarterectomy [PDF]
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2022 Background: Internal carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is a method of stroke prevention in patients with severe internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis. Patients with significant carotid stenosis tend to have lower cognitive performance than those without ...
Lenka Krámská +3 more
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European Stroke Organisation guideline on endarterectomy and stenting for carotid artery stenosis
European Stroke Journal, 2021 Atherosclerotic stenosis of the internal carotid artery is an important cause of stroke. The aim of this guideline is to analyse the evidence pertaining to medical, surgical and endovascular treatment of patients with carotid stenosis.
L. Bonati +13 more
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Carotid Endarterectomy in the Very Elderly: Short-, Medium-, and Long-Term Outcomes
Vascular Specialist International, 2023 Purpose: Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) has an established effect on stroke-free survival in patients with carotid artery stenosis. Most landmark trials excluded patients ≥80 years of age due to their perceived high risk and uncertainty regarding the ...
Shabin Fahad +3 more
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Carotid Phase-Contrast Magnetic Resonance before Treatment: 4D-Flow versus Standard 2D Imaging
Tomography, 2021 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of agreement between flow/velocity data obtained from 2D-phase-contrast (PC) and 4D-flow in patients scheduled for treatment of carotid artery stenosis.
Francesco Secchi +10 more
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Automated Measurement of Vascular Calcification in Femoral Endarterectomy Patients Using Deep Learning [PDF]
Diagnostics 2023, 13, 3363, 2023 Atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the large arteries, presents a global health risk. Accurate analysis of diagnostic images, like computed tomographic angiograms (CTAs), is essential for staging and monitoring the progression of atherosclerosis-related conditions, including peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
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The Impact of Surgery Resident Participation on the Outcome of Carotid Endarterectomy [PDF]
, 2020 Introduction. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the in-hospital stroke rate plus deaths (SD) was adversely impacted by the participation of surgery residents during carotid endarterectomy. Methods.
Ammar, Alex
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Extracellular Matrix Patches for Endarterectomy Repair
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 Patch repair is the preferred method for arteriotomy closure following femoral or carotid endarterectomy. Choosing among available patch options remains a clinical challenge, as current evidence suggests roughly comparable outcomes between autologous ...
Keith B. Allen +7 more
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Carotid artery stenting versus endarterectomy for treatment of carotid artery stenosis.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2020 BACKGROUND Carotid artery stenting is an alternative to carotid endarterectomy for the treatment of atherosclerotic carotid artery stenosis. This review updates a previous version first published in 1997 and subsequently updated in 2004, 2007, and 2012.
Mandy D Müller +3 more
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