Analysis of Florida and New York state hospital discharges suggests that carotid stenting in symptomatic women is associated with significant increase in mortality and perioperative morbidity compared with carotid endarterectomy

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Vouyouka, Ageliki G ^a   Egorova, Natalia N ^a   Sosunov, Eugene A ^b   Moskowitz, Alan J ^a   Gelijns, Annetine ^a   Marin, Michael ^a   Faries, Peter L ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SENESCENCE; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SYMPTOMATIC CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864494125     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2012.01.066     Document Type: Article

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