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KMID : 0371319840260020235
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Journal of the Korean Surgical Society
1984 Volume.26 No. 2 p.235 ~ p.239
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Carotid Endarterectomy
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Lee, Jin-Young
Quigley, William F.
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Abstract
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Stroke is a major problems of primary health care in the Unites States. Each year 350,000 individuals suffer strokes1. Roughly one-third of these patients die, one-third suffer disability and one-third return to independent function. Since the most meaningful treatment for a stroke is prophylaxis, Transient Ischemic Attack has been looked at with increasing interest and concern because more than three quarters of the patients who suffer strokes have warning symptoms in the form of Transient Ischemic Attack and 30?35 per cent untreated patients with Transient Ischemic Attacks develop frank strokes if followed 3~5 years or longer1.
At the St. Mary´s Hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut 26 patients who underwent 30 carotid endarterectomies were reviewed. This review also shows that recognizing Transient Ischmic Attack, assessing its significance with angiographic studies and operating the patient with carotid endarterectomy when indicated is most effective and relatively safe procedure to prevent stroke.
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