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8966829

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
46
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-19
pubmed:abstractText
The present study was undertaken in order to evaluate whether arteriography changed the planned treatment (carotid endarterectomy) of patients with symptomatic carotid artery disease, who had been investigated primarily by ultrasound Duplex scanning. The material was comprised of 50 consecutive patients admitted for arteriography. All patients were symptomatic and were by ultrasound examination found to have lesions of the relevant internal carotid artery (ICA). In three cases arteriography was performed because ultrasound examination was inconclusive. Of the remaining 47 cases, arteriography only changed the planned treatment in three. In one case, arteriography showed a long stenosis continuing into the intracranial part of the ICA, which was not observed by ultrasound. In two cases of minor disease ultrasound overestimated the degree of stenosis. The study concludes that carotid endarterectomy may be performed based on ultrasound duplex scanning, without prior arteriography, if the degree of stenosis is 70% or greater and if the distal end of the stenosis is clearly extracranial.
pubmed:language
dan
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0041-5782
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
158
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6617-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
[Carotid stenosis--is arteriography necessary in investigation and treatment].
pubmed:affiliation
Karkirurgisk afdeling RK, Rigshospitalet, København.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract