Affiliation:
1. Surgical Professorial Unit, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, At St Laurence's (Richmond) Hospital, Dublin
Abstract
Summary
The results of 72 carotid endarterectomy operations carried out by three consultant surgeons were analysed. Thirty-eight operations (32.8 per cent) were performed in patients with mild or resolving stroke and 33 operations (45.9 per cent) in patients with transient ischaemic attacks and/or amaurosis fugax. Five patients (7 per cent) died in the early postoperative period, 2 as a result of strokes and the others from cardiac causes. Seventy-six per cent of patients had a satisfactory long term result, remaining free from stroke, blindness or recurrent transient ischaemic attacks over the follow-up period of 1–7 years.
There were 10 patients (13.8 per cent), including 2 who died, who developed early postoperative neurological deficits; 4 (5.5 per cent) had transient defects and 6 (8.3 per cent) had permanent deficits. Of these patients, 4 had proved occlusions of the reconstructed artery. In 3 patients, cerebral embolization during operation was suspected as the cause. There were, in addition, 2 asymptomatic patients whose reconstruction was shown to be occluded on follow-up postoperative angiography. The continued absence of symptoms, therefore, is no guarantee that the reconstruction is patent and some more objective method of assessment is necessary if the results of carotid endarterectomy are to be critically analysed. The incidence of neurological deficits could, it is believed, be reduced by greater experience with the operation, the routine use of per-operative intra-arterial shunting and peroperative angiography to confirm the patency of the reconstruction.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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