Carotid endarterectomy: Time-trends and results during a 20-year period

International Angiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 241-248

  Dahl, T ^a   Aasland, J ^a   Romundstad, P ^b   Johnsen, H J ^a   Myhre, Hans O ^a  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Complications; Endarterectomy, carotid; Long term results; Lung term results; Survival; SurvivalEndarterectomy,carotid

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIPYRIDAMOLE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NORWAY; PATCH ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORWAY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 33749332021     PISSN: 03929590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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