Cerebral Hemodynamics in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Patients with Severe Unilateral Carotid Stenosis before and after Carotid Endarterectomy

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 375-378

  Telman, G ^a   Kouperberg, E ^a   Nitecki, S ^b   Karram, T ^b   Schwarz, H A ^b   Sprecher, E ^a   Hoffman, A ^b   Yarnitsky, D ^a  

^a Departments of Neurology   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carotid endarterectomy; Cerebral hemodynamics; Transcranial doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; RESTENOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 33748425317     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2006.04.031     Document Type: Article

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