The abstract is truncated and does not report the quantitative results of the pooled analysis evaluating carotid endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid stenosis.
Meta-Analysis
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Does carotid endarterectomy improve outcomes in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis?
This pooled analysis of individual patient data from three major trials evaluates the efficacy of carotid endarterectomy across predefined subgroups of patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis.
65 Benefit from carotid endarterectomy (CEA) depends on the degree of symptomatic stenosis, but is also likely to be influenced by other clinical and angiographic characteristics. However, individual trials have been too small to allow reliable subgroup analysis. We therefore studied pooled individual patient data from the European Carotid Surgery Trial, the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial and the Veterans Administration trial #309. We determined the effect of CEA in 11 predefined subgroups: age (
Rothwell et al. (Mon,) conducted a meta-analysis in Symptomatic carotid stenosis. Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) was evaluated. The abstract is truncated and does not report the quantitative results of the pooled analysis evaluating carotid endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid stenosis.
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