2011 ASA/ACCF/AHA/AANN/AANS/ACR/ASNR/CNS/SAIP/SCAI/SIR/SNIS/SVM/SVS guideline on the management of patients with extracranial carotid and vertebral artery disease: Executive summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines, and the American Stroke Association, American Association of Neuroscience Nurses

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Brott, Thomas G ^a   Halperin, Jonathan L ^a   Abbara, Suhny ^a   Bacharach, J Michael ^a   Barr, John D ^a   Bush, Ruth L ^a   Cates, Christopher U ^a   Creager, Mark A ^a   Fowler, Susan B ^a   Friday, Gary ^a   Hertzberg, Vicki S ^a   McIff, E Bruce ^a   Moore, Wesley S ^a   Panagos, Peter D ^a   Riles, Thomas S ^a   Rosenwasser, Robert H ^a   Taylor, Allen J ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPYRIDAMOLE; GLICLAZIDE; INDAPAMIDE; INDAPAMIDE PLUS PERINDOPRIL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PERINDOPRIL; STATIN; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

ANGIOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICE; EXERCISE; EXTRACRANIAL CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STROKE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISEASE;

CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; STENTS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 79961221349     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STR.0b013e3182112d08     Document Type: Article

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