Does alteration of cerebrovascular reactivity affect cognitive performance in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis?
Altered cerebrovascular reactivity in asymptomatic carotid stenosis may impair ipsilateral cognitive function, potentially informing surgical indications.
These results suggest that an alteration of cerebrovascular reactivity may be responsible for reduction in some cognitive abilities involving the function of the hemisphere ipsilateral to carotid stenosis. Such findings may be of interest for providing a more comprehensive indication to surgical treatment in subgroups of subjects with asymptomatic carotid stenosis.
Silvestrini et al. (Mon,) studied this question.