Background Studies have investigated the effects of gender on vascular surgery care.
However, to the best of our knowledge, no comprehensive synthesis of the literature has …

• Coronary angiography was performed during the evaluation of a prospective series of 506
patients (mean age, 65 years) presenting with extracranial cerebrovascular disease and …

Simultaneous coronary artery bypass and carotid endarterectomy were performed in 331
patients (mean age 61 years) at the Cleveland Clinic from 1973 through 1981. Of these, 195 …

Abstract From January 1979 through December 1982, 2026 patients scheduled to undergo
open heart surgery were evaluated by a preoperative battery of noninvasive carotid tests …

Carotid endarterectomy is being performed with increasing frequency, now over 100000
times annually in the United States. We used the methods of decision analysis to examine …

Major advances are being made in our understanding of the pathophysiology of ischemic
stroke. In the past 25 years anticoagulation, carotid endarterectomy, and antiplatelet …

To evaluate the incidence of silent ischemic heart disease in cerebrovascular patients
unable to exercise, we performed intravenous dipyridamole-thallium myocardial imaging in …

Medical Center with lightheadedness and transiently garbled speech. He had had a similar
episode without garbled speech three months before the current ad-mission. Two years …

• The postoperative courses of 113 patients undergoing 121 carotid endarterectomies
between 1974 and 1979 were analyzed for recurrent transient ischemic attacks (TIAs). The …

Eighty patients who had undergone bilateral carotid endarterectomy at the same operation
were reviewed. All operative procedures were performed under general anaesthesia and …