Protected Carotid Artery Stenting

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Protected Carotid Artery Stenting

10/19/2004

Background:

Pier: Disease >
UpToDate: Nonsurgical carotid revascularization
ACP Journal Club: Sacket DL. Superiority trials, noninferiority trials, and prisoners of the 2-sided null hypothesis. ACP Journal Club. 2004 Mar-Apr;140:A11-2.

Article

Yadav JS, Wholey MH, Kuntz RE, Fayad P, Katzen BT, Mishkel GJ, Bajwa TK, Whitlow P, Strickman NE, Jaff MR, Popma JJ, Snead DB, Cutlip DE, Firth BG, Ouriel K; Stenting and Angioplasty with Protection in Patients at High Risk for Endarterectomy Investigators. Protected carotid-artery stenting versus endarterectomy in high-risk patients. N Engl J Med. 2004 Oct 7;351(15):1493-501.
PMID: 15470212

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