The Correlation Between Carotid Stenosis and Perioperative Stroke During Heart Surgery: Is There Real Evidence?

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Medicine - Surgery, Accident Medicine, grade: Excellent , Maastricht University, language: English, abstract: The goal of this systematic review was to find evidence for a correlation between carotid artery stenosis and perioperative stroke in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Articles were searched in NCBI Pubmed, and appraised based on several criteria,...