Cognitive and emotional effects of carotid stenosis.

CONCLUSIONS: Cognitive impairment and increased level of anxiety are frequent in patients with carotid stenosis. The lack of a correlation between cognitive functioning and degree of stenosis or the presence of collaterals, challenges the view that CAS per se leads to cognitive impairment.
PMID: 24984222 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - July 3, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Everts R, Wapp M, Burren Y, Kellner-Weldon F, El-Koussy M, Kay J, Delameilluer Lenoir J, Michel P, Schroth G Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research