Does stenting reduce the risk of periprocedural stroke, myocardial infarction, or death and subsequent ipsilateral stroke compared to endarterectomy in patients with carotid-artery stenosis?
At 10 years of follow-up, stenting and endarterectomy demonstrated comparable long-term outcomes for the composite risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, or death in patients with carotid-artery stenosis.
Over 10 years of follow-up, we did not find a significant difference between patients who underwent stenting and those who underwent endarterectomy with respect to the risk of periprocedural stroke, myocardial infarction, or death and subsequent ipsilateral stroke. The rate of postprocedural ipsilateral stroke also did not differ between groups. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health and Abbott Vascular Solutions; CREST ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00004732.).
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