The results of a simplified technique for safe carotid stenting in the elderly

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1637-1642

  Christopoulos, Dimitrios ^a,b   Philippov, Eugenios ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Agios Loukas Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CREATININE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

AGED; ARTERIOTOMY; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BALLOON DILATATION; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BLOOD FILTER; BRADYCARDIA; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; ELDERLY CARE; EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INCISION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 82955165817     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2011.06.025     Document Type: Article

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