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Carotid endarterectomy

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675:"ASA/ACCF/AHA/AANN/AANS/ACR/ASNR/CNS/SAIP/SCAI/SIR/SNIS/SVM/SVS Guideline on the Management of Patients With Extracranial Carotid and Vertebral Artery Disease: Executive Summary A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines, and the American Stroke Association, American Association of Neuroscience Nurses, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, American College of Radiology, American Society of Neuroradiology, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging and Prevention, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Interventional Radiology, Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery, Society for Vascular Medicine, and Society for Vascular Surgery Developed in Collaboration With the American Academy of Neurology and Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography" 337: 372:(EEG), transcranial doppler analysis, cerebral oximetry, or carotid artery stump pressure monitoring can guide the placement of a shunt, or a shunt may be routinely used. At present there is still ongoing debate related to difference in outcome between local and general anaesthesia, and methods of determining the need for a shunt. However, excellent outcomes can be achieved by performing carotid endarterectomy under local local 29: 144: 401:, UK. Eastcott's procedure was not strictly an endarterectomy as we now understand it; he excised the diseased part of the artery and then resutured the healthy ends together. Carotid endarterectomy was finally shown to be effective in stroke prevention after a landmark clinical trial spearheaded by the Canadian clinical scientist 348:. The incision is between 5 and 10 cm (2.0 and 3.9 in) in length. The internal, common and external carotid arteries are carefully identified, controlled with vessel loops, and clamped. The lumen of the internal carotid artery is opened, and the atheromatous plaque substance removed. The artery is closed using 215:
ulcerated plaques. This low rate of stroke means that there is less potential stroke risk-reduction from endarterectomy for asymptomatic patients relative to symptomatic patients. However, for asymptomatic patients with severe carotid stenosis (80-99%), carotid endarterectomy plus treatment with a
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Asymptomatic people have narrowing of their carotid arteries, but have not experienced a transient ischemic attack or stroke. The annual risk of stroke in patients with asymptomatic carotid disease is between 1% and 2%, although some patients are considered to be at higher risk, such as those with
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Verhoeven, B; Hellings, WE; Moll, FL; de Vries, JP; de Kleijn, DP; de Bruin, P; Busser, E; Schoneveld, AH; Pasterkamp, G (December 2005). "Carotid atherosclerotic plaques in patients with transient ischemic attacks and stroke have unstable characteristics compared with plaques in asymptomatic and
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Unlike asymptomatic patients, symptomatic people with moderate carotid stenosis (50–69%) still benefit from endarterectomy, albeit to a lesser degree, with a number needed to treat of 22 at five years. Recent evidence demonstrated that unstable carotid atherosclerotic plaques are responsible for
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Bhattathiri, PS; Ramakrishnan, Y; Vivar, RA; Bell, K; Bullock, RE; Mitchell, P; Gregson, B; Mendelow, AD (August 2005). "Effect of awake Carotid Endarterectomy under local anaesthesia on peri-operative blood pressure: blood pressure is normalised when carotid stenosis is treated under local
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Sef, D; Kovacevic, M; Jernej, B; Novacic, K; Slavica, M; Petrak, J; Medved, I; Milosevic, M (November 2022). "Immunohistochemical analysis of MMP-9 and COX-2 expression in carotid atherosclerotic plaques among patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy: A prospective study".
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in Houston, TX, although the technique was not reported in the medical literature until 1975. The first case to be recorded in the medical literature was in The Lancet in 1954; the surgeon was Felix Eastcott, a consultant surgeon and deputy director of the surgical unit at
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Carotid endarterectomy itself can cause strokes, so to be of benefit in preventing strokes over time, the risks for combined 30-day mortality and stroke risk following surgery should be < 3% for asymptomatic people and ≤ 6% for symptomatic people.
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Barnett, HJM; Taylor, DW; Haynes, RB; Sackett, DL; Peerless, SJ; Ferguson, GG; Fox, AJ; Rankin, RN; Hachinski, VC; Wiebers, DO; Eliasziw, M (1991). "Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis".
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over time. Carotid stenosis can either have symptoms (i.e., be symptomatic), or be found by a doctor in the absence of symptoms (asymptomatic) - and the risk-reduction from endarterectomy is greater for symptomatic than asymptomatic patients.
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Watanabe, J; Ogata, T; Hamada, O; Nonaka, M; Abe, H; Higashi, T; Shiota, E; Inoue, T (July 2014). "Improvement of cognitive function after carotid endarterectomy--a new strategy for the evaluation of cognitive function".
368:. The latter allows for direct monitoring of neurological status by intra-operative verbal contact and neurological assessment. With general anaesthesia, indirect methods of assessing cerebral perfusion must be used. 918:
Lichtman, Judith H.; Jones, Michael R.; Leifheit, Erica C.; Sheffet, Alice J.; Howard, George; Lal, Brajesh K.; Howard, Virginia J.; Wang, Yun; Curtis, Jeptha; Brott, Thomas G. (2017-09-19).
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Sef, D; Skopljanac-Macina, A; Milosevic, M; Skrtic, A; Vidjak, V (May 2018). "Cerebral Neuromonitoring during Carotid Endarterectomy and Impact of Contralateral Internal Carotid Occlusion".
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and hence benefit less from the procedure. For maximum benefit people should be operated on soon after a stroke or transient ischemic attack, preferably within the first 2 weeks.
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The most feared complication of carotid endarterectomy is stroke. Risks of stroke at the time of surgery are higher for symptomatic (3–5%) than asymptomatic patients (1–3%).
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is achieved, and the overlying layers closed with suture. The skin can be closed with suture which may be visible or invisible (absorbable). Many surgeons place a temporary
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The endarterectomy procedure was developed and first done by the Portuguese surgeon Joao Cid dos Santos in 1946, when he operated an occluded subsartorial artery, at the
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Carotid endarterectomy does not treat symptoms of prior strokes. It is controversial if carotid endarterectomy can improve cognitive function in some patients.
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Long term complications include restenosis of the endarterectomy bed, although the clinical significance of this is controversial in asymptomatic patients.
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Eastcott, HH; Pickering, GW; Rob, CG (13 November 1954). "Reconstruction of internal carotid artery in a patient with intermittent attacks of hemiplegia".
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and complete cerebrovascular territory side severe neurologic deficits (NIHSS>15), because there is no brain tissue at risk for further stroke damage.
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In symptomatic patients with a 70–99% stenosis, for every six people treated, one major stroke would be prevented at two years (i.e., a
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to ensure blood supply to the brain during the procedure. The procedure may be performed under general or local
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Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
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Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
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Rerkasem, Amaraporn; Orrapin, Saritphat; Howard, Dominic Pj; Rerkasem, Kittipan (12 September 2020).
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is an alternative to carotid endarterectomy in cases where endarterectomy is considered too risky.
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injury are also risks at the time of surgery. Following surgery, a rare early complication is
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does reduces stroke risk further than medication alone in the five years following surgery.
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Moresoli, P; Habib, B; Reynier, P; Secrest, MH; Eisenberg, MJ; Filion, KB (August 2017).
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White CJ, Beckman JA, Cambria RP, Comerota AJ, Gray WA, Hobson RW, Iyer SS (2008).
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People deemed unfit for the operation by the surgeon or anesthesiologist due to
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Carotid endarterectomy specimen. The specimen is removed from within the
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Carotid endarterectomy is used to reduce the risk of strokes caused by
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High risk criteria for carotid endarterectomy include the following:
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The person has a previous complete hemispheric stroke on the
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is the large vertical artery in red. The blood supply to the
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Severe lung disease or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Brott TG, Halperin JL, Abbara S, et al. (2011).
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with or without a patch to increase the size of the
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There is complete internal carotid artery occlusion
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Index


lumen
common carotid artery
internal carotid artery
external carotid artery
ICD-9-CM
38.1
MeSH
D016894
edit on Wikidata
surgical
carotid artery stenosis
internal carotid artery
endarterectomy
carotid stenting
carotid artery stenosis

carotid artery
common carotid artery
aorta
subclavian artery
internal carotid artery
external carotid artery
transient ischemic attack
number needed to treat
transient ischemic attack
mortality rate
statin
anti-platelet therapy
cranial nerve

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