Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis and Risk of Stroke (ACSRS) study: what have we learned from it?

ABSTRACT: The Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis and Risk of Stroke (ACSRS) study is the largest natural history study on patients with 50-99% asymptomatic carotid stenosis (ACS). It included 1,121 ACS individuals with a follow-up between 6 and 96 months (mean: 48 months). During the last 15 years, several important ACSRS substudies have been published that have contributed significantly to the optimal management of ACS patients. These studies have demonstrated that specific baseline clinical characteristics and ultrasonic plaque features after image normalization (namely carotid plaque type, gray scale median, carotid plaque area, juxtaluminal black area without a visible echogenic cup, discrete white areas in an echolucent part of a plaque, silent embolic infarcts on brain computed tomography scans, a

SUBMITTER: Paraskevas KI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7607063 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature