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Extracranial Carotid Stenosis

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Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is the method of choice for treatment of asymptomatic and symptomatic carotid stenoses. Carotid artery stenting (CAS) may be considered as an alternative to CEA in high-volume centres with documented death or stroke rate <3% in asymptomatic patients, and <6% in symptomatic patients, respectively. Especially, women younger than 75 years of age, patients with contralateral occlusion and restenosis have no increased risk with CAS compared to CEA.

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Debus, E.S., Grundmann, R.T. (2017). Extracranial Carotid Stenosis. In: Evidence-based Therapy in Vascular Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47148-8_1

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