Can the Geriatric Depression Scale detect poststroke depression in Chinese elderly?
Due to its low positive predictive value, a more specific instrument should supplement GDS in screening PSD in Chinese elderly.
The 1-year primary patency of the technique was poor, and patency was hard to maintain without the assistance of PTA. Given that frequent PTA was conducted in 74% of patients, it may be a cause for the poor patency. Many cases required thrombectomies, which have the disadvantage of being more invasive than PTA. We concluded that bypass graft technique is not valuable for cases that received frequent PTA.