Journal article

Symptomatic Patients Remain at Substantial Risk of Arterial Disease Complications before and after Endarterectomy or Stenting

C Hobeanu, PC Lavalleé, PM Rothwell, L Sissani, GW Albers, NM Bornstein, LR Caplan, GA Donnan, JM Ferro, MG Hennerici, J Labreuche, C Molina, PG Steg, PJ Touboul, S Uchiyama, É Vicaut, LKS Wong, P Amarenco

Stroke | LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS | Published : 2017

Abstract

Background and Purpose-After carotid endarterectomy (CEA) or carotid artery stenting (CAS) in patients with transient ischemic attack or minor ischemic stroke, recurrent stroke risk falls to a low rate on modern medical treatment. Methods-We used data from 4583 patients with recent transient ischemic attack or minor stroke enrolled in the TIAregistry.org to perform a nested case-control analysis to evaluate pre-and post-CEA/CAS risk. Cases were defined as patients with a CEA/CAS during the 1-year follow-up period. For each case, 2 controls with a follow-up time greater than the time from qualifying event to CEA/CAS were randomly selected, matched by age and sex. Primary outcome was defined a..

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