Urgent carotid artery stenting with technical modifications for patients with transient ischemic attacks and minor stroke

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 627-635

  Coppi, Gioacchino ^a   Moratto, Roberto ^a   Veronesi, Jessica ^a   Silingardi, Roberto ^a   Sacha, Njila Mistral Klend ^a   Borsari, Giulia Trevisi ^a   Coppi, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Carotid artery stenting; Minor stroke; Proximal cerebral protection device; Stent; Stroke prevention; Symptomatic carotid stenosis; Transient ischemia attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; STENT THROMBOSIS; STROKE PATIENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID STENOSIS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; ITALY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84868349937     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: 15451550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/JEVT-12-3852MR.1     Document Type: Article

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