Protected Carotid-Artery Stenting versus Endarterectomy in High-Risk Patients

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Authors

Jay S. Yadav · Cleveland Clinic

Mark H. Wholey · Brigham and Women's Hospital

Richard E. Kuntz · Harvard University

Pierre Fayad · University of Nebraska at Omaha

Barry T. Katzen

Gregory Mishkel

Tanvir Bajwa · Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center

Patrick L. Whitlow

Abstract

Carotid endarterectomy is more effective than medical management in the prevention of stroke in patients with severe symptomatic or asymptomatic atherosclerotic carotid-artery stenosis. Stenting with the use of an emboli-protection device is a less invasive revascularization strategy than endarterectomy in carotid-artery disease.

Topics & Keywords

Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 351, Issue 15, pp. 1493-1501

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa040127

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