Does carotid endarterectomy improve cognitive performance and cerebrovascular reactivity in patients with severe carotid artery disease?
Carotid endarterectomy may reverse cognitive dysfunction in severe carotid artery disease by improving cerebral hemodynamics.
Cognitive performance was enhanced at 6 months since CEA, and the improvement was related to the CVR increase. Cerebral hemodynamics may be an independent and potentially reversible determinant of cognitive dysfunction in severe carotid artery disease.
Lattanzi et al. (Wed,) studied this question.