Stroke Prevention-Surgical and Interventional Approaches to Carotid Stenosis

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 503-514

  Rajamani, Kumar ^a   Chaturvedi, Seemant ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic and symptomatic stenosis; Carotid endarterectomy; Carotid stenosis; Carotid stenting; High risk patients

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLONIDINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LABETALOL; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

AGING; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HEMISPHERE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; INTERVENING VARIABLE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECK HEMATOMA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 79960796957     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: 18787479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-011-0052-2     Document Type: Review

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