Clinical and radiographic risk factors for operative stroke and death in the European Carotid Surgery Trial

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 108-116

  Bond, R ^a   Narayan, S K ^b   Rothwell, P M ^a   Warlow, C P ^c  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotid endarterectomy; Complications; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCULAR ISCHEMIC SYNDROME; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SURGICAL RISK; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; WOUND INFECTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EUROPE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036482983     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ejvs.2001.1541     Document Type: Article

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