Controversies in Management: Should carotid endarterectomy be purchased? Treatment avoids much morbidity
- 4 February 1995
- Vol. 310 (6975) , 316-317
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6975.316
Abstract
The prognosis of transient ischaemic attacks was recently studied in 184 patients from 10 group practices in Oxfordshire, and the risk of stroke was 11.6% during the first year, rising to 29.3% within five years.2 Carotid endarterectomy has the greatest benefit for patients with transient ischaemic attacks of the brain and eye who have a greater than 70% stenosis at the origin of the relevant internal carotid artery in the neck. …Keywords
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