Prognosis after transient monocular blindness associated with carotid-artery stenosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 345, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 1084-1090

  Benavente, Oscar ^a,e   Eliasziw, Michael ^b,c   Streifler, Jonathan Y ^d   Fox, Allan J ^c   Barnett, Henry J M ^b,c   Meldrum, Heather ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS;

AGED; BLINDNESS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 0035846319     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa002994     Document Type: Article

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