Choice of the Proper Therapeutic Measure in the Individual Patient and Prevention of Stroke

Abstract

In the therapy of cardiovascular diseases, contemporary medicine associates medical therapy, endovascular procedures, and surgery. This tripod-like conceptual structure underscores not only the role of each of the methods and approaches but stresses the major clinical relevance of combining these, either in the same time or in sequential order. The limit between these three prongs of the tripod is also not absolutely well demarcated, and some of the methods seem to blend or merge with each other; the best example is offered by the pharmacologically active stents and the combined (“hybrid”) endovascular and surgical procedures.

Contraria non contradictoria sed complementa sunt

N. Bohr