Beta-blocker use is associated with lower stroke and death after carotid artery stenting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Proper selection of patients for carotid artery stenting (CAS) remains controversial despite multiple controlled trials. This relates in part to differences in interpretation of the relative importance of myocardial vs stroke complications after the procedure by different specialties and a lack of granular clinical data to analyze outcomes outside the large clinical trials. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of preoperative medications, procedure parameters, and patient characteristics on outcomes of CAS performed in a multispecialty national database.

Methods

We analyzed all patients who underwent CAS between 2005 and 2014 in the Vascular Quality Initiative. A multivariate logistic regression model was built to assess the effects of age, gender,

SUBMITTER: Obeid T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5292260 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature