Thirty-day neurologic improvement associated with early versus delayed carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 435-442

  Chisci, Emiliano ^a   Pigozzi, Clara ^a   Troisi, Nicola ^a   Tramacere, Luciana ^a   Zaccara, Gaetano ^a   Cincotta, Massimo ^a   Ercolini, Leonardo ^a   Michelagnoli, Stefano ^a  

^a SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE PATIENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ODDS RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE; TIME FACTOR; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ODDS RATIO; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84924857112     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2014.08.028     Document Type: Article

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