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Carotid Artery Stent Placement by Christopher J. White is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Carotid Artery Stent Placement about?
In the past 3 years, there have been significant developments in the field of carotid revascularization, including: 1) the results of a large primary stroke prevention trial; 2) the emergence of novel platforms for emboli protection; 3) improved characterization of the high-risk carotid artery stent (CAS) patient; 4) completion of several very large post-market surveillance (PMS) trials of CAS in high-surgical-risk patients; and 5) the completion of 4 large randomized controlled trials comparing CAS with carotid endarterectomy in average-risk patients. The purpose of this review is to update the current status of revascularization therapies to reduce stroke in patients with extracranial carotid artery disease with a focus on the most recent developments regarding the role of CAS. (
Who reads Carotid Artery Stent Placement?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Medicine.
- Author
- Christopher J. White
- Publisher
- American College of Cardiology; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1936-8798)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)