Does protected carotid-artery stenting prevent stroke compared to carotid endarterectomy in high-risk patients with severe symptomatic or asymptomatic atherosclerotic carotid-artery stenosis?
Carotid endarterectomy is more effective than medical management in the prevention of stroke in patients with severe symptomatic or asymptomatic atherosclerotic carotid-artery stenosis. Stenting with the use of an emboli-protection device is a less invasive revascularization strategy than endarterectomy in carotid-artery disease.
Yadav et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
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