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Published on: 5/20/2005
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The study was presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery in June by Dr Joseph Hart, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, who helped collect the data during his Marco Polo fellowship in Dendermonde, Belgium.
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"Closed-cell stents and eccentric filter devices were predominately used in this study and performed better in the short term in symptomatic patients or those with echolucent lesions," said Dr Joseph Hart, assistant professor of vascular surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, NY.
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Hart noted that neurological deficit, even following a period of hypotension with bradycardia, were recorded as a TIA and commented that similar events may be masked under general anaesthesia, particularly if EEG monitoring is not utilised or fails to indicate such activity."Carotid stenting is here to stay," said Hart.