Optimising the timing of carotid surgery using a carotid risk scoring system

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery : the Official Journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery
O EhsanA da Silva

Abstract

Transient ischaemic attacks (TIA's) have 4-20% risk of evolving into a major stroke within 90 days, with half of them occurring in the first 2 days. The Department of Health, UK, guidelines (2007) suggests all higher-risk patients with TIA and minor stroke need to be assessed by a specialist and treated within 24 hours. However, the reality in the health system is that the delay between the last cerebrovascular event (CVE) and surgery is often in excess of 90 days. Recently validated ABCD(2) scoring stratifies the risk of stroke after CVE and can help in prioritizing patients for investigations and urgent carotid endarterectomy (CEA). The aim of this pilot study was to stratify patients who underwent CEA, post cerebrovascular event, using the ABCD(2) scoring method. This would help us assess our current CEA practice and, in future, prioritise surgery according to estimated stroke risk. Retrospective analysis of ABCD(2) scoring of patients who underwent CEA. The average delay between first presentation and carotid endarterectomy was 172.8 days (range 3 to 837 days). This average delay for the low, moderate and high risk groups was 200.8, 154.1 and 156.5 days, respectively. The ABCD(2) scoring is an easily applicable method to st...Continue Reading

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