Should sex influence the choice between carotid stenting and carotid endarterectomy?

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 494-497

  Brown, Martin M ^a   Raine, Rosalind ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVASCULARIZATION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE;

CAROTID STENOSIS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; STENTS; STROKE;

EID: 79956032646     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: 14744465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(11)70103-X     Document Type: Letter

References (13)

1. Appelros P, Stegmayr B, Terént A Sex differences in stroke epidemiology: a systematic review. Stroke 2009, 40:1082-1090.
2. Foerch C, Misselwitz B, Humpich M, et al. Sex disparity in the access of elderly patients to acute stroke care. Stroke 2007, 38:2123-2126.
3. Di Carlo A, Lamassa M, Baldereschi M, et al. Sex differences in the clinical presentation, resource use, and 3-month outcome of acute stroke in Europe. Data from a multicenter multinational hospital-based registry. Stroke 2003, 34:1114-1119.
4. Turtzo LC, McCullough LD Sex differences in stroke. Cerebrovasc Dis 2008, 26:462-474.
5. Howard VJ, Lutsep HL, Mackey A, et al. Influence of sex on outcomes of stenting versus endarterectomy: a subgroup analysis of the Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy versus Stenting Trial (CREST). Lancet Neurol 2011, for the CREST investigators, published online May 9. 10.1016/S1474-4422(11)70080-1.
6. Brott TG, Hobson RW, Howard G, et al. Stenting versus endarterectomy for treatment of carotid-artery stenosis. N Engl J Med 2010, 363:11-23.
7. Carotid artery stenting compared with endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (International Carotid Stenting Study): an interim analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2010, 375:985-997. International Carotid Stenting Study investigators.
8. Mas J-L, Trinquart L, Leys D, et al. Endarterectomy Versus Angioplasty in Patients with Symptomatic Severe Carotid Stenosis (EVA-3S) trial: results up to 4 years from a randomised, multicentre trial. Lancet Neurol 2008, 7:885-892.
9. Short-term outcome after stenting versus endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid stenosis: a preplanned meta-analysis of individual patient data. Lancet 2010, 376:1062-1073. Carotid Stenting Trialists' Collaboration.
10. Ederle J, Bonati LH, Dobson J, et al. Endovascular treatment with angioplasty or stenting versus endarterectomy in patients with carotid artery stenosis in the Carotid And Vertebral Artery Transluminal Angioplasty Study (CAVATAS): long-term follow-up of a randomised trial. Lancet Neurol 2009, 8:898-907.
11. Marquardt L, Geraghty O, Mehta Z, Rothwell PM Low risk of ipsilateral stroke in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis on best medical treatment: a prospective, population-based study. Stroke 2010, 41:e11-e17.
12. Bonati LH, Jongen LM, Haller S, et al. New ischaemic brain lesions on MRI after stenting or endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid stenosis: a substudy of the International Carotid Stenting Study (ICSS). Lancet Neurol 2010, 9:353-362. for the ICSS-MRI study group.
13. Macdonald S, Lee R, Williams R, Stansby G Towards safer carotid artery stenting: a scoring system for anatomic suitability. Stroke 2009, 40:1698-1703. on behalf of the Delphi Carotid Stenting Consensus Panel.