Among 474 patients having 547 carotid endarterectomies (CEAs) over an 80-month period, 11 (2.3%) with symptomatic (n = 8) and asymptomatic (n = 3) severe (>70%) carotid stenosis had 12 asymptomatic intracranial aneurysms (IAs). None had postoperative stroke or died, and none had surgical or endovascular IA treatment before or after CEA. In an average 5-year follow-up, no patients had subarachnoid hemorrhage. Having an IA does not seem to be an additional risk factor for CEA, nor does CEA seem to increase the chance of IA rupture.
Extracranial severe carotid stenosis and incidental intracranial aneurysms
BALLOTTA, ENZO;MANARA, RENZO;BARACCHINI, CLAUDIO
2006
Abstract
Among 474 patients having 547 carotid endarterectomies (CEAs) over an 80-month period, 11 (2.3%) with symptomatic (n = 8) and asymptomatic (n = 3) severe (>70%) carotid stenosis had 12 asymptomatic intracranial aneurysms (IAs). None had postoperative stroke or died, and none had surgical or endovascular IA treatment before or after CEA. In an average 5-year follow-up, no patients had subarachnoid hemorrhage. Having an IA does not seem to be an additional risk factor for CEA, nor does CEA seem to increase the chance of IA rupture.File in questo prodotto:
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