Optimal Management of Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis: Counterbalancing the Benefits with the Potential Risks

Paraskevas, Kosmas I.; Mikhailidis, Dimitri P.; Baradaran, Hediyeh; Davies, Alun H.; Eckstein, Hans-Henning; Faggioli, Gianluca; Fernandes, Jose Fernandes e; Gupta, Ajay; Jezovnik, Mateja K.; Kakkos, Stavros K.; Katsiki, Niki; Kooi, M. Eline; Lanza, Gaetano; Liapis, Christos D.; Loftus, Ian M.; Millon, Antoine; Nicolaides, Andrew N.; Poredos, Pavel; Pini, Rodolfo; Ricco, Jean-Baptiste; Rundek, Tatjana; Saba, Luca; Spinelli, Francesco; Stilo, Francesco; Sultan, Sherif; Zeebregts, Clark J.; Chaturvedi, Seemant

J Stroke. 2022 Jan;24(1):163-165. 10.5853/jos.2021.04420.

Optimal Management of Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis: Counterbalancing the Benefits with the Potential Risks

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¹Department of Vascular Surgery, Central Clinic of Athens, Athens, Greece
²Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital Campus, University College London Medical School, University College London (UCL), London, UK
³Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
⁴Section of Vascular Surgery, Imperial College & Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
⁵Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
⁶Vascular Surgery, University of Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum”, S. Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Bologna, Italy
⁷Department of Vascular Surgery, Lisbon Academic Medical Center, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
⁸Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
⁹Department of Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation, The University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
¹⁰Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
¹¹First Department of Internal Medicine, AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
¹²CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
¹³Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
¹⁴Vascular Surgery Department, IRCSS MultiMedica Hospital, Castellanza, Italy
¹⁵Athens Vascular Research Center, Athens, Greece
¹⁶St. George’s Vascular Institute, St. George’s University London, London, UK
¹⁷Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Louis Pradel Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
¹⁸Department of Surgery, University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus
¹⁹Department of Vascular Disease, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
²⁰Department of Clinical Research, University of Poitiers, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
²¹Department of Neurology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
²²Department of Radiology, University Hospital Center of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
²³Vascular Surgery Division, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Rome, Italy
²⁴Western Vascular Institute, Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Galway, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
²⁵Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
²⁶Department of Neurology & Stroke Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

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DOI: http://doi.org/10.5853/jos.2021.04420

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