High-Risk Factors in Symptomatic Patients Undergoing Carotid Artery Stenting With Distal Protection: Buffalo Risk Assessment Scale (BRASS)

CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that CAS should be avoided in patients with multiple anatomic risk factors. High presenting National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score and renal disease also increase the complication risk. The CAS scoring system devised here is simple, reproducible, and clinically valuable in predicting complications risk in symptomatic patients undergoing CAS. ABBREVIATIONS: BRASS, Buffalo Risk Assessment Scale CAS, carotid artery stenting CCA, common carotid artery CEA, carotid endarterectomy CTA, computed tomographic angiogram ICA, internal carotid artery MI, myocardial infarction NASCET, North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial NIHSS, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale
Source: Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Research-Human-Clinical Studies Source Type: research