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Plaque Stability and Carotid Stenting

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Practical Carotid Artery Stenting

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Carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) is increasingly being performed for the treatment of severely stenotic carotid disease [1–5]. Despite, this growing acceptance, the recently published data of the Eva-3S trial [6], performed in France, and the SPACE trial [7] in Germany failed to prove superiority of CAS over CEA. Nevertheless, earlier publications show that with growing experience and the development of dedicated CAS equipment and devices, CAS can be performed safely and efficiently [2, 8].

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The authors take great pleasure in thanking the staff of Flanders Medical Research Program (http://www.fmrp.be), with special regards to Koen De Meester for performing the systematic review of the literature and providing substantial support to the writing of the chapter.

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Bosiers, M., Deloose, K., Peeters, P. (2009). Plaque Stability and Carotid Stenting. In: Macdonald, S., Stansby, G. (eds) Practical Carotid Artery Stenting. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-299-9_8

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