Evidence map›Paper›PMID 11093412›Full record

ReviewTexas Heart Institute journal2000

New developments in endovascular interventions for extracranial carotid stenosis.

W A Tan, C R Jarmolowski, L R Wechsler, M H Wholey

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Review in Texas Heart Institute journal, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

W A TanPittsburgh Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania 15232, USA.
C R Jarmolowski
L R Wechsler
M H Wholey
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We provide an overview of recent developments in carotid interventional technique and equipment, including new stents and emboli protection devices. The newer self-expanding stents lessen the problem of external stent compression associated with balloon expandable stents, but precise deployment and the matching (by length) of stents to lesions remain problematic. We also discuss emerging pharmacologic strategies for cerebral protection in stroke. Multiple randomized clinical trials and multicenter registries are under way to compare percutaneous with surgical strategies for the treatment of carotid stenosis. These include the evaluation of emboli protection devices, and, to a lesser degree, intravenous glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonists. Other clinical trials are aimed towards refining the ability to stratify patients by risk, in order to identify the subsets that would benefit most from these complex and expensive procedures.

Indexed as

Angioplasty, BalloonCarotid StenosisEmbolismEndarterectomy, CarotidHumansStents

Identifiers

PMID11093412
PMCPMC101079
OpenAlexW1725844079

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