Cognitive improvement in patients with severe carotid artery stenosis after transcervical stenting with protective flow reversal

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 124-130

  Ortega, Gemma ^a   Álvarez, Beatriz ^b   Quintana, Manuel ^a   Ribó, Marc ^a   Matas, Manuel ^b   Álvarez Sabin, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carotid stenting; Cognition; Neuropsychological improvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; SAFETY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; AGED; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DOPPLER DEVICE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FLOW REVERSAL TECHNIQUE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; TRANSCERVICAL CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84873592895     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000346102     Document Type: Article

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