Background: The Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care (2008 update)
recommend that patients with neurologic symptoms secondary to severe internal carotid …

Objective In patients with recently symptomatic carotid artery stenosis, guidelines
recommend carotid revascularization within 2 weeks of the index event. The “index event” …

Background and Purpose—The benefit of carotid endarterectomy for preventing recurrent
stroke is maximal when surgery is performed within 2 weeks after ischemic stroke or …

Objectives As the risk of a recurrent neurological event in patients with symptomatic carotid
stenosis requiring carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is highest in the early phase after the first …

Background: Current recommendations for carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for symptomatic
carotid stenosis state benefit is greatest when performed within two weeks of symptoms …

METHODS Study Design and Data Sources We performed a retrospective chart-review of
consecutive patients presenting to Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada between …

Background: Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) has been shown to reduce the risk of stroke in
patients with symptomatic carotid artery stenosis. Multiple systematic reviews have …

Background: For optimal stroke prevention, best practices guidelines recommend carotid
endarterectomy (CEA) for symptomatic patients within two weeks; however, 2013 Ontario …

BACKGROUND: Current Canadian and international guidelines suggest patients with
transient ischemic attack (TIA) or nondisabling stroke and ipsilateral internal carotid artery …

OBJECTIVES: Surgical treatment of carotid stenosis after the onset of ischaemic symptoms
should be performed within 2 weeks. This aim was accomplished only in 11% during the …