Periprocedural Complication Rates Are Equivalent between Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Patients Undergoing Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 233-237

  Rhee Moore, Soo J ^a   DeRubertis, Brian G ^a   Lam, Russell C ^a   Hynecek, Robert L ^a   Lee, Larisse ^a   McKinsey, James F ^a   Morrissey, Nicholas J ^a   Karwowski, John ^a   Mureebe, Leila ^b   Kent, K Craig ^a   Faries, Peter L ^c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; STENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS;

AGED; AMAUROSIS FUGAX; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; STENTS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40849097934     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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