Stratifying risk: asymptomatic carotid disease
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Asymptomatic carotid artery disease.
THE RISK OF STROKE in asymptomatic internal carotid artery disease may not exceed the combined morbidity and mortality of surgical therapy. That concern is the subject of an article in this issue of Stroke by Durward et al. The authors encountered but 2 examples of stroke among 73 patients followed for a mean of 4 years after the angiographic demonstration of asymptomatic internal carotid steno...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal Vascular Brasileiro
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1677-5449
DOI: 10.1590/s1677-54492012000100008