Sentences with word «endarterectomy»

Results: 65 year - old man with atrial fibrillation on warfarin, coronary artery disease and carotid artery stenosis with right carotid endarterectomy presented with falls and left hand tremors for 6 months.

Pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a distinguishing feature as just a few dozen centers nationally and internationally offer this procedure.

Another large study, out this year, found that 4.7 percent of endarterectomy patients had a stroke or died within four years after surgery, compared with 6.4 percent of those receiving stents.

Anesthesia Management in Case of Carotid Anatomic Variant during Carotid Endarterectomy under General Anesthesia

Several large clinical trials, involving thousands of asymptomatic patients in the United States and Europe, have shown that a surgical technique known as carotid endarterectomy can remove the plaques and slightly reduce the risk of a stroke, by about 1 to 5 percent over five years.

Patients undergoing a pulmonary endarterectomy are placed on the heart - lung machine and the body temperature is cooled to 64.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Finding a physician who does carotid endarterectomy or carotid angioplasty at least several times a week is a good way to minimize the risk of complications.

However, the operation, called a carotid endarterectomy, has about a 3 percent risk of causing an immediate stroke, the researchers cautioned.

Although the study found the rate of stroke in patients without a carotid endarterectomy to be 1.8 percent a year over a 10 - year period, the rates are thought to be about 1 percent a year, but may be as low as around 0.5 percent a year.