A comparative effectiveness study of carotid intervention for long-term stroke prevention in patients with severe asymptomatic stenosis from a large integrated health system

CONCLUSIONS: In this contemporary cohort study of patients with ACS utilizing rigorous analytic methodology, CEA appears to have a small but statistically significant effect on stroke prevention out to 8 years. Further study is needed to appropriately select the subset of patients most likely to benefit from intervention.PMID:37406943 | DOI:10.1016/j.jvs.2023.06.024

Source: Atherosclerosis - July 5, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Robert W Chang Noel Pimentel Lue-Yen Tucker Kara A Rothenberg Andrew L Avins Alexander C Flint Rishad M Faruqi Mai N Nguyen-Huynh Romain Neugebauer Source Type: research