Severe bilateral carotid stenosis: The impact of ipsilateral stenting on Doppler-defined contralateral stenosis

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1358-1362

  Sachar, Ravish ^a   Yadav, Jay S ^a   Roffi, Marco ^b   Cho, Leslie ^c   Reginelli, Joel P ^a   Aböu Chebl, Alex ^a   Bhatt, Deepak L ^a   Bajzer, Christopher T ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; Carotid endarterectomy; CEA; Cerebrovascular accident; Coronary artery disease; CVA; Diabetes mellitus; DM; EDV; End diastolic velocity; Left ventricular; LV; Magnetic resonance angiography; MRA; Peak systolic velocity; Peripheral vascular disease; PSV; PVD; QCA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; STENT; SYSTOLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 1942517000     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2003.11.049     Document Type: Article

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