Carotid angioplasty and stenting, success relies on appropriate patient selection

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 946-951

  Sadek, Mikel ^a   Hynecek, Robert L ^b   Sambol, Elliot B ^b   Ur Rehman, Habib ^b   Kent, K Craig ^b   Faries, Peter L ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NECK DISSECTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; STROKE; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMAUROSIS FUGAX; ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NECK DISSECTION; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43049085560     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.12.049     Document Type: Article

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