Risk of Stroke before Revascularisation in Patients with Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis: A Pooled Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials

Current guidelines recommending rapid revascularisation of symptomatic carotid stenosis are largely based on data from clinical trials performed at a time when best medical therapy was potentially less effective than today. The risk of stroke and its predictors among patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis awaiting revascularisation in recent randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and in medical arms of earlier RCTs was assessed.

Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - June 23, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: U. Fisch, S. von Felten, A. Wiencierz, O. Jansen, G. Howard, J. Hendrikse, A. Halliday, G. Fraedrich, H.-H. Eckstein, D. Calvet, R. Bulbulia, J.-P. Becquemin, A. Algra, P. Rothwell, P. Ringleb, J.-L. Mas, M.M. Brown, T.G. Brott, L.H, Bonati, Carotid Steno Source Type: research