Gender-related risk factors for perioperative stroke after carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients.

Background: Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is a surgical procedure used in ischemic brain stroke prevention in patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic severe carotid artery stenosis.

Objectives: This study compares perioperative stroke or death rate after carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in male and female patients, and determines risk factors for perioperative incidents in women and men.

Material And Methods: The outcome of surgical treatment of 269 consecutive symptomatic patients (181 men and 88 women) treated from January 2004 to August 2008 in the Department of Vascular, General and Oncologic Surgery was analyzed.

Neurologic and functional long-term outcome after carotid endarterectomy.

Background: The aim of this research was to assess the neurologic status of patients a year after endarterectomy with the use of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and the degree of disability using the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) and to examine the patients' subjective evaluation of their health.

Methods: One hundred two patients with symptomatic internal carotid artery stenosis who underwent endarterectomy and attended a 1-year follow-up examination were enrolled in the study. The material comprised 72 (70.

Endovascular management of aortic dissections involving the common carotid and subclavian arteries.

Aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition, in which rupture of the internal wall of the aorta is observed. The aim of the study was to present the techniques used in patients with type A Stanford aortic dissection treatment by means of carotid-carotid by-pass surgery and implantation of the aortic stent-graft with intentional occlusion of the left common carotid and subclavian arteries. Surgical methods were presented on the basis of three patients treated at the Department of Vascular, General and Oncological Surgery, Memorial Copernicus Hospital in Łódź.

Influence of internal carotid endarterectomy on patients' life quality.

Unlabelled: Appropriate treatment of symptomatic carotid artery stenosis can reduce ischemic cerebral strokes' risk and in some cases eliminate neurological symptoms. Endarterectomy is the most common surgical treatment. The aim of the study was to examine the influence of carotid endarterectomy on neurological symptoms and patients' life quality.

Intracranial occlusions and internal carotid artery stenoses: clinical implications.

Background: The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of intracranial stenoses or occlusions on the outcome of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in patients with internal carotid artery stenosis. The authors also searched for internal carotid artery plaque's morphology influence on the atherosclerotic process in intracranial arteries.

Methods: The study included 154 patients who underwent angiography and CEA.

[Disseminated intravascular coagulation in abdominal aortic aneurysm--case report].

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) constitutes a rare presentation form of aortic aneurysms. In majority of cases, DIC is asymptomatic and has chronic course, but in 0.5-4% of patients it is clinically overt.