The Cleveland Plain Dealer
(8/1, Suchetka, 315K) reports that research published online in the Journal of
the American College of Cardiology found that “patients who received stents in
their...carotid, arteries and then had open-heart surgery a few weeks later had
much better chances of remaining healthy in following years,” compared to
patients who received other treatments.
CardioSource (8/1)
reports that researchers “evaluated the outcomes of 350 patients with severe
carotid artery stenosis who underwent one of the three approaches to carotid
revascularization within 90 days” before “planned open heart surgery at
Cleveland Clinic: staged carotid endarterectomy followed by open heart surgery;
combined carotid endarterectomy with open heart surgery; and staged carotid
artery stenting followed by open heart surgery.” The investigators found, “at
one year of follow up...that staged carotid artery stenting followed by open
heart surgery resulted in a lower risk of the composite endpoint of all-cause
death, stroke, and myocardial infarction (MI), than staged carotid
endarterectomy-open heart surgery and a similar risk compared with combined
carotid endarterectomy-open heart surgery.” Data “at follow-up beyond one year
showed that patients who underwent staged carotid artery stenting-open heart
surgery had a significantly lower risk of the composite outcomes compared with”
other participants
POSTED BY: Steven
Almany M.D.
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