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
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