Key result
Severe symptomatic internal carotid stenosis carries markedly higher early recurrent stroke risk than other subtypes.
Why the study?
Severe internal carotid artery stenosis with recent stroke or TIA carries a high early risk of stroke, and prior population studies showed higher recurrent stroke risk with large vessel atherosclerosis than other stroke subtypes.
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Symptomatic severe ICA stenosis carries high early recurrent stroke risk; leaves open optimal modern prevention strategies.
Severe internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis with a recent stroke or TIA carries a high early risk of stroke. In previous population-based studies, the risk of recurrent stroke with large vessel atherosclerosis was much higher than that for other stroke subtypes, such as small vessel disease or cardioembolic stroke.1
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Chaturvedi et al. (2016) studied this question. Severe internal carotid artery stenosis with a recent stroke or TIA carries a high early risk of recurrent stroke that is much higher than for other stroke subtypes.
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