Does multiple risk factor intervention reduce carotid atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes?
Intensification of risk factor intervention in type 2 diabetes results in CIMT regression over a period of 2 years. None of the biomarkers used including endothelial function parameters or endothelial progenitor cells turned out to be useful to predict CIMT changes.
Despite a high incidence of complications and reoperations, surgery was an effective and reasonable treatment for DS, providing significant functional improvement and deformity correction.