Endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis - Results of the ACAS-study;Zur Indikation der Endarterektomie bei asymptomatischen Stenosen der Arteria carotis interna oder communis - Die Ergebnisse der nordamerikanischen ACAS-Studie

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie

Volumn 121, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1033-1035

  Mast, H ^a   Chambless, L E ^b   Mohr, J P ^c   Toole, J F ^d  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b IL   (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

endarterectomy; symptomatic carotid artery stenosis; thromboendarterectomy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDARTERECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030473344     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. European Carotid Surgery Trialists' Collaborative Group: MRC European Carotid Surgery Trial: interrim results for symptomatic patients with severe (70>99 %) or with mild (0-29 %) carotid stenosis, Lancet 337 (1991) 1235-1243
2. Executive Committee for the Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study: Endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis, JAMA 273 (1995) 1421-1428
3. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators: Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis, New Eng J Med 325 (1991) 445-453
4. The Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study Group (Toole JF, Howard VJ, Grizzle J, Chambless LE): Study design for randomized prospective trial of carotid endarterectomy for asymptomatic atherosclerosis, Stroke 20 (1989) 844-849
5. Warlow C: Endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid stenosis?, Lancet 345 (1995) 1254-1255