Natural history and clinical outcome of patients with documented carotid artery occlusion

Irish Journal of Medical Science

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 289-291

  Cheema, S ^a   Clarke Moloney, M ^a   Kavanagh, E G ^a   Burke, P E ^b   Grace, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Internal carotid artery; Occlusion; Recanalisation

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RECANALIZATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; COHORT STUDIES; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 36549027443     PISSN: 00211265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11845-007-0076-0     Document Type: Article

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