#67: Neurology’s Cutting Edge, Installment #5
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Surgery and trauma-related issues for neurology professionals, installment #5
Publication Date: Apr 27th, 2007.
Focus: carotid artery stenting vs. endarterectomy.
1. Consensus limits carotid stenting to the sickest patients: a technology may have been introduced to humankind, before adequate safety and efficacy studies.
2. Restenosis may be an ongoing process after secondary stent: an early and long-term phenomenon.
3. Carotid stenting has low complication rate in registry: may help decide if benefits outweigh the risks.
4. Brain function may be boosted by carotid artery stenting.
5. Preventable errors cause stroke in carotid stenting: learning the errors might help reduce complications.
And last but not least: help your nicotine-addicted patients prevent a stroke, by ‘walking a mile for a camel’? Don’t even think about it!
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