Publications by authors named "Nilushi Karunamuni"
Article Synopsis
- The study looked at strokes caused by a neck problem called carotid artery web (CaW) in young patients, who often don't have typical stroke risk factors.
- Researchers used a score called RoPE to see how many patients had high-risk profiles related to CaW, and found that many had high scores.
- The results suggest that doctors need to look for CaW in stroke patients, even if they have a condition called patent foramen ovale (PFO), to figure out the real cause of their strokes.
Introduction: Carotid Web (CaW) is an increasingly recognized etiology of ischemic stroke, and has been shown to be amenable to endovascular stenting. The technical complexity of stenting for CaW may be lower than for carotid atherosclerotic disease (CAD). We aimed to assess procedural characteristics of stenting for CaW as compared to CAD.
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