Patients with severe asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis do not have a higher risk of stroke and mortality after coronary artery bypass surgery

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2801-2805

  Mahmoudi, Michael ^a   Hill, Peter C ^a   Xue, Zhenyi ^a   Torguson, Rebecca ^a   Ali, Gholam ^a   Boyce, Steven W ^a   Bafi, Ammar S ^a   Corso, Paul J ^a   Waksman, Ron ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery bypass grafting; mortality rate; SEVERE carotid artery stenosis; stroke rate

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTICEMIA; STROKE;

AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053315429     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.618082     Document Type: Article

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