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Short term and intermediate term comparison of endarterectomy versus stenting for carotid artery stenosis: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled clinical trials.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20154049     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the relative short term safety and intermediate term efficacy of carotid endarterectomy versus carotid artery stenting.
DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
DATA SOURCES: BIOSIS, Embase, Medline, the Cochrane central register of controlled trials, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts database, ISI Web of Science, and Google scholar and bibliographies, from 1 January 1990 to 25 July 2009.
STUDY SELECTION: Randomised controlled trials comparing carotid endarterectomy with carotid artery stenting in patients with carotid artery stenosis with or without symptoms.
DATA EXTRACTION: Primary end point was a composite of mortality or stroke. Secondary end points were death, stroke, myocardial infarction, or facial neuropathy (as individual end points), and mortality or disabling stroke (as a composite end point).
DATA SYNTHESIS: 11 trials were included (4796 patients); 10 reported on short term outcomes (n=4709) and nine on intermediate term outcomes (1-4 years). The periprocedural risk of mortality or stroke was lower for carotid endarterectomy (odds ratio 0.67, 95% confidence interval 0.47 to 0.95; P=0.025) than for carotid stenting, mainly because of a decreased risk of stroke (0.65, 0.43 to 1.00; P=0.049), whereas the risk of death (1.14, 0.56 to 2.31; P=0.727) and the composite end point mortality or disabling stroke (0.74, 0.53 to 1.05; P=0.088) did not differ significantly. The odds of periprocedural myocardial infarction (2.69, 1.06 to 6.79; P=0.036) or cranial nerve injury (10.2, 4.0 to 26.1; P<0.001) was higher in the carotid endarterectomy group than in the carotid stenting group. In the intermediate term, the two treatments did not differ significantly for stroke or death (hazard ratio 0.90, 95% confidence interval 0.74 to 1.1; P=0.314).
CONCLUSIONS: Carotid endarterectomy was found to be superior to carotid artery stenting for short term outcomes but the difference was not significant for intermediate term outcomes; this difference was mainly driven by non-disabling stroke. Significantly fewer cranial nerve injuries and myocardial infarctions occurred with carotid artery stenting.
Authors:
Pascal Meier; Guido Knapp; Umesh Tamhane; Seemant Chaturvedi; Hitinder S Gurm
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Comparative Study; Journal Article; Meta-Analysis; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Review     Date:  2010-02-12
Journal Detail:
Title:  BMJ (Clinical research ed.)     Volume:  340     ISSN:  1756-1833     ISO Abbreviation:  BMJ     Publication Date:  2010  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-02-15     Completed Date:  2010-02-25     Revised Date:  2012-03-06    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8900488     Medline TA:  BMJ     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  c467     Citation Subset:  AIM; IM    
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center, Floor 2A 394, 1500 E Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5853, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Carotid Stenosis / surgery*
Endarterectomy, Carotid / methods*
Humans
Myocardial Infarction / etiology
Odds Ratio
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Risk Factors
Stents*
Stroke / etiology
Treatment Outcome
Comments/Corrections
Comment In:
BMJ. 2010;340:c1467   [PMID:  20233767 ]
BMJ. 2010;340:c748   [PMID:  20154051 ]
Praxis (Bern 1994). 2010 Jun 23;99(13):805-6   [PMID:  20572004 ]
Erratum In:
BMJ. 2010;340:c1798

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