Homocysteine improves risk stratification in patients undergoing endarterectomy for asymptomatic internal carotid artery stenosis

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2311-2314

  Duschek, Nikolaus ^a   Ghai, Samarth ^a   Sejkic, Fahrudin ^a   Falkensammer, Jürgen ^a   Skrinjar, Edda ^a   Huber, Kurt ^a   Wojta, Johann ^b   Waldhör, Thomas ^c   Hübl, Wolfgang ^b   Assadian, Afshin ^a  

^a WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Medical University of Vienna and Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

carotid stenosis; endarterectomy, carotid; homocysteine; risk stratification

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HOMOCYSTEINE; RISK STRATIFICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84880792807     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.001819     Document Type: Article

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