Urgent best medical therapy may obviate the need for urgent surgery in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2220-2225

  Shahidi, Saeid ^a   Owen Falkenberg, Alan ^a   Hjerpsted, Ulrik ^a   Rai, Amrit ^a   Ellemann, Karsten ^b  

^a Regional Hospital Slagelse   (Denmark)

^b University Hospital Roskilde   (Denmark)

Author keywords

carotid stenosis; emergency medical services; emergency medicine; endarterectomy, carotid

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID PLUS CLOPIDOGREL; SIMVASTATIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BEST MEDICAL TREATMENT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STROKE PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; THERAPY DELAY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

CAROTID; CAROTID STENOSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDARTERECTOMY;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CAROTID STENOSIS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; STROKE; TICLOPIDINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 84880790260     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.000798     Document Type: Article

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