REGISTRATION:
DWI-positive, atherosclerotic stenosis, carotid stenosis
ADVERSE EVENTS, CAROTID STENOSIS
URL: In symptomatic patients with atherosclerotic stenosis of the extracranial carotid artery, revascularization procedures can result in new ischemic brain lesions.The ICSS (International Carotid Stenting Study) randomized patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis to CAS or CEA.The establishment of the longer-term clinical relevance of the DWI lesions after carotid revascularization procedures is essential in the process of implementing a universally accepted surrogate outcome. Today, thus far, there are no data describing adverse events in DWI-positive patients beyond 5-year follow-up. Therefore, in this study,we intended to determine the long-term cerebrovascular outcome in DWI-positive compared with DWI-negative patients after carotid revascularization procedures.