Volume : 7, Issue : 1, January - 2018

ENDOVASCULAR MANAGEMENT OF CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE

Dr. Avinash Angadrao Gutte, Dr. Jyoti B. Bade

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Stroke is the third leading cause of mortality and accounts for over 143,579 deaths every year. Approximately 795,000 people experience a new or recurrent stroke every year.^{(2)<o:p></o:p>}</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:&#10;12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">At least 15&ndash;20% of all ischemic strokes are attributed to carotid artery atherosclerosis.⁽³⁾ Hence the present study was done at our tertiary care centre to assess the utility of carotid artery stenting as a mode of management of carotid artery stenosis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>