Journal article
Carotid endarterectomy has significantly lower risk in the last two decades - Should the guidelines now be updated
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Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) carries a significant risk of procedural stroke and death Guidelines recommend keeping this risk below 6% and below 3% for symptomatic and asymptomatic patients respectively. After analysing our Institute’s CEA results during the past 25 years, we found the rate of postoperative complications was now well below Guideline thresholds. Accordingly, we studied temporal changes in procedural risks in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and in large observational studie...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 710.2KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.23736/S0021-9509.17.09742-7
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- Publisher:
- Edizione Minerva Medica Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2017-02-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-09
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1827-191X
- ISSN:
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0021-9509
- Source identifiers:
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678959
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pubs:678959
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uuid:c5756fe9-08e4-4f26-85fb-06fa6fa4ff39
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- pubs:678959
- Deposit date:
- 2017-02-09
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- Edizioni Minerva Medica
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- Copyright © 2017 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA
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