Risk modeling to identify patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis most at risk of stroke.
We have reliable data on the degree of stenosis above which endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid stenosis is beneficial, but benefit is also influenced by other factors, particularly age, sex, the timing of surgery, plaque surface morphology and the nature of the presenting symptomatic event(s). T...
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2005
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