Noninvasive screening for asymptomatic carotid artery disease prior to cardiac operation
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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: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0022-5223
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5223(19)37574-9