Management of patients with concomitant severe coronary and carotid artery disease: is there a perfect solution?
Management of patients with concomitant severe coronary and carotid artery disease: is there a perfect solution?
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合并严重冠状动脉和颈动脉疾病患者的管理:有完美的解决方案吗?
作者:
M. Roffi
Despite limited evidence of the benefit of carotid revascularization before or together with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), patients with advanced carotid and coronary disease are frequently treated by a combined or staged carotid/coronary surgical revascularization. In the present issue of Circulation ,1 investigators from Nieuwegein in the Netherlands describe in a large group of patients (n=356) an alternative revascularization approach: carotid artery stenting (CAS) followed by CABG. The rate of death, stroke, or myocardial infarction (MI) from the time of CAS to 30 days after cardiac surgery (6.8%) compares well with previous surgical series2–21 (Table). The associated neurological complication rates were low both at 30 days (major ipsilateral stroke 1.1%) and at a mean follow-up of 31 months (neurological death 1.1% and major ipsilateral stroke 1.1%). The carotid restenosis rate was negligible. The authors must be commended for the favorable patient outcomes and for the volume of procedures performed (47 per year), which are superior to most, if not all, recent surgical series of combined coronary-carotid revascularization (Table). Additional important aspects of the study were that patients were accepted for CAS by a consensus decision that involved neurologists, surgeons, and interventionists and that neurologists were deeply involved in the care of those patients throughout the hospital stay.
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Table. Outcomes up to 30 Days for Patients Undergoing CEA and CABG or CAS Followed by CABG
Article p 2036
With respect to the surgical management of concomitant coronary and carotid disease, a systematic review of the studies published up to 2002 showed that the overall 30-day rate of death, stroke, or MI was 11%.2 Several single-center experiences have followed, documenting a death rate ranging between 3.6% and 6.1% and a stroke rate between 2.8% and 5.5% up to 30 days (Table). A population-based analysis performed in the United …