SLIDE 3 3
Literature Review
- Leicester
- Wall stent
- Kentucky
- CAVATAS
- Non-randomized
case series
case series
- CREST
- ICSS
- EVA – 3s
- SPACE
BEFORE EPD AFTER EPD
On – going TRIALS
Leicester 1998, UK
29 patients, ∑ >70% F/U 1 mo Stroke/Death/HITs D30
Endovacular Surgery 6 excluded
JVS 1998 S t
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m i t t e e a t t h e f i r s t i n t e r i m a n a l y s i s
5/7 strokes
Wallstent 2001, USA
219 pts, ∑>60% F/U 1,12 mo Stroke/Death/MI D30
Endovascular 12.1% (1 yr) Surgery 3.6% (1 yr) No protection devices
<
Ticlopidine
Abandoned by commercial sponsors
- No protection devices used
- Lack of experience of interventionalists
- Stent primarily not dedicated to carotid
artery
- Stroke and MI rates > CEA group
- Prematurely arrested
- Abandoned by commercial sponsors
Wallstent 2001 Kentucky 2001, USA
104 patients, ∑ >70% F/U 1,3,6,12,24 mo Stroke/Death/Restenosis
Endovacular 1/53 TIA Surgery 1/53 MI No protection devices Limited series Clopidogrel
=
JACC 2001
CAVATAS 2001
Europe, Australia, Canada
504 patients, ∑/a∑ F/U 1,6,12,60 mo Stroke / Death D30 Endovacular 251 Surgery 253
Recruitement 1992-1997 Pre 1994 (74%) Post 1994 (26%)
Not the best current clinical practice
Lancet 2001