Current Management of Extracranial Carotid Artery Disease
- 1 May 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
- Vol. 40 (3), 165-175
- https://doi.org/10.1177/153857440604000301
Abstract
Stroke is the third most common cause of death in the United States. There are approximately 700,000 strokes/year; 80% are ischemic, and 20-30% of ischemic strokes are secondary to carotid disease. Carotid stenosis is traditionally treated by carotid endarterectomy (CEA). Multicenter, randomized, controlled trials have shown that surgery significantly reduces the risk of ipsilateral stroke in patients with severe symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Endovascular techniques for treating carotid stenosis have been developed over recent years. Carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) with cerebral protection has become an alternative to CEA for high-surgical-risk patients and the procedure of choice for stenoses inaccessible by surgery. In this review we summarize the existing data regarding the traditional state of management of extracranial carotid artery stenosis and compare these data to a critical analysis of the recent results of CAS.Keywords
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