Risk index for predicting perioperative stroke, myocardial infarction, or death risk in asymptomatic patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy

OBJECTIVE: The latest guidelines recommend performance of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) on asymptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis, only if the combined perioperative stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), or death risk is ≤3%. Our objective was to develop and validate a risk index to est...

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Main Authors: Gupta, Prateek K., Ramanan, Bala, MacTaggart, Jason N., Sundaram, Abhishek, Fang, Xiang, Gupta, Himani, Johanning, Jason M., Pipinos, Iraklis I.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3650300/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23159474
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvs.2012.08.116
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