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👉🏻Carotid Artery Stenosis👈🏻 We currently have three main ways to treat carotid disease. 1️⃣ Medical Management. 2️⃣ Carotid endarterectomy. 3️⃣ Carotid Stenting. 🔪Carotid Endarterectomy. ☑️Symptomatic patients with 70-99% stenosis - Clear benefit was found in the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET); the incidence of ipsilateral stroke in 2 years was 9% with surgery and 26% with medical management. ☑️Symptomatic patients with 50-69% stenosis - Benefit is modest. ☑️In general, symptomatic patients with 50-99% stenosis and healthy, asymptomatic patients with greater than 60% stenosis warrant consideration for CEA 💔 100% stenosis= no intervention, medical management only! 📌Carotid Artery Stenting ☑️Symptomatic patients with high-grade stenosis (≥70%) who are considered to be at high risk for CEA ☑️Symptomatic patients with 50-70% stenosis who are considered... (Vea el primer comentario).‼️👇🏻 #VideoEducativo 🔗 @DrJayMohan