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DR M ASHRAF MANSOUR (Grand Rapids, MI): Dr Mayor and colleagues queried the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) for carotid interventions between 2005 and 2015. They stopped collecting data after October 2015 because we switched to ICD-10 and they were afraid of contaminating their data. They found more than 1,242,000 patients in this database. These patients received either carotid endarterectomy or stent. Roughly 41.5% were women. Interestingly, only 11.3% were symptomatic. Their studies showed the highest rate of stroke in their patients was in symptomatic women having a carotid stent, followed by symptomatic women having an endarterectomy.
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Tags: Western surgical association article Source Type: research