Diastolic blood pressure is an independent risk factor for periprocedural stroke following carotid endarterectomy in asymptomatic patients
Benefits of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in stroke prevention partly depend on periprocedural risks. Although systolic hypertension is thought of as a risk factor for periprocedural events, effects of diastolic blood pressure (dBP) are often ignored. In a recent post-hoc analysis of ICSS, diastolic...
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Elsevier
2016
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| Summary: | Benefits of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in stroke prevention partly depend on periprocedural risks. Although systolic hypertension is thought of as a risk factor for periprocedural events, effects of diastolic blood pressure (dBP) are often ignored. In a recent post-hoc analysis of ICSS, diastolic blood pressure was associated with adverse outcome after CEA in symptomatic patients. We aimed to identify whether this was also a risk factor for periprocedural stroke or death in asymptomatic patients in the Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial (ACST-1). |
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