[Articles] Association between age and risk of stroke or death from carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting: a meta-analysis of pooled patient data from four randomised trials

In these RCTs, CEA was clearly superior to CAS in patients aged 70–74 years and older. The difference in older patients was almost wholly attributable to increasing periprocedural stroke risk in patients treated with CAS. Age had little effect on CEA periprocedural risk or on postprocedural risk after either procedure.

Source: LANCET - February 11, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: George Howard, Gary S Roubin, Olav Jansen, Jeroen Hendrikse, Alison Halliday, Gustav Fraedrich, Hans-Henning Eckstein, David Calvet, Richard Bulbulia, Leo H Bonati, Jean-Pierre Becquemin, Ale Algra, Martin M Brown, Peter A Ringleb, Thomas G Brott, Jean-Lo Tags: Articles Source Type: research