Natural History of Non-operative Management in Asymptomatic Patients with 70%-80% Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis by Duplex Criteria.
CONCLUSION: Patients with asymptomatic moderate to severe carotid stenosis had a low rate of stroke/TIA without documented progression. However, there was a high rate of stenosis progression reinforcing the need to follow these patients closely.
PMID: 32660806 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: PubMed: Eur J Vasc Endovasc ... - Category: Surgery Authors: Cheng TW, Pointer KE, Gopal M, Farber A, Jones DW, Eberhardt RT, Kalish JA, Eslami MH, Rybin D, Siracuse JJ Tags: Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg Source Type: research
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