Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis: Endarterectomy, Stenting, or Best Medical Management?

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 108-114

  McKinsey, James F ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPYRIDAMOLE; HEPARIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MENADIONE EPOXIDE; PLACEBO; TICLOPIDINE; VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG ELUTING STENT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVASCULARIZATION; STENT; STROKE;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45149135424     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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