Anesthetic management of carotid endarterectomy: an update from Italian guidelines [PDF]
Sergio Bevilacqua +28 more
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Patient Experiences of Receiving Stroke Discharge Information in Accordance With Preferences
ABSTRACT Aims To examine survivors' experiences of discharge information including risk communication after hospitalisation for a stroke and the characteristics associated with receiving information in accordance with their preferences. Background With advances in acute stroke care and an ageing population, the number of survivors of stroke is ...
Kristy Fakes +6 more
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In September, 10 advanced practice nurses from the Department of Surgery gathered for a lunchtime kick-off meeting to form a Nurse Practitioners (NPs) & Physician Assistants (PAs) Professionalism and Scholarship Working Group.
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ABSTRACT The superiority of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) over maximal medical therapy for symptomatic intracranial artery stenosis in terms of secondary prevention has yet to be proved. However, several studies have reported that PTA can improve cortical symptoms and cognitive dysfunctions in selected patients with intracranial artery ...
Yoshitaka Nakamura +4 more
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Antecedentes: el accidente cerebrovascular es la tercera causa de muerte y probablemente la causa más importante de discapacidad a largo plazo. La tasa de mortalidad está entre 15% y 35% con el primer ataque y se eleva a 65% para los accidentes ...
Juan G Barrera +17 more
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Multilevel lesions of lower extremities arteries: choosing the optimal surgical approach
INTRODUCTION. One of the important problems in cardiovascular surgery is the multilevel lesions of the lower extremity arteries. We presented the results of treatment of multilevel arterial lesion.METHODS AND MATERIALS.
A. A. Oborin +4 more
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Carotid artery disease screening : assessment of criteria [PDF]
The Department of Radiology at St. Luke’s Hospital has provided a screening service for stroke related disease since April 1991. This consisted of Duplex Ultrasound screening (DUS) for Extracranial Carotid Artery Disease (ECAD) followed by angiography or
Galea Debono, Anthony +2 more
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Genetic susceptibility loci for cardiovascular disease and their impact on atherosclerotic plaques [PDF]
Background: Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease in part caused by lipid uptake in the vascular wall, but the exact underlying mechanisms leading to acute myocardial infarction and stroke remain poorly understood. Large consortia identified
Asselbergs, Folkert W +23 more
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Objective Assessment of Surgical Operative Performance by Observational Clinical Human Reliability Analysis (OC-HRA):A Systematic Review [PDF]
Background: Both morbidity and mortality data (MMD) and learning curves (LCs) do not provide information on the nature of intraoperative errors and their mechanisms when these adversely impact on patient outcome.
Cuschieri, Alfred, Tang, Benjie
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Comparison of multidetector-row computed tomography and duplex Doppler ultrasonography in detecting atherosclerotic carotid plaques complicated with intraplaque hemorrhage [Usporedba višeslojne kompjuterizirane tomografije i duplex Doppler ultrazvuka u otkrivanju aterosklerotskih karotidnih plakova kompliciranih krvarenjem u plak ] [PDF]
This study compared sensitivity and specificity of multidetector-row computed tomography and duplex Doppler ultrasonography in detecting atherosclerotic carotid plaques complicated with intraplaque hemorrhage.
Ajduk, Marko +8 more
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