Table 4. Summary of the main results from revascularization and BMT.
| Author | Study type | Total No. of patients with CNO [CNO with full collapse, without full collapse] | Diagnostic technique | Mean age (years) | Treatment | Follow-up | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revascularization | BMT No. | Mean follow-up period (months) | Revascularization, BMT | |||||||||
| No. (method) | No. of any strokes and death within 30 days | No. of carotid occlusion, n/N | No. of ipsilateral strokes and cases neurogenic or cardiac death | |||||||||
| O’Leary, et al., 1989, (23) | Retrospective study | 34 [NR] | DSA | 66 | 25 (CEA) | 2 | 9 | 34 | 4/23, 9/9 | 0, 5 | ||
| Ascher, et al., 2002†, (10) | Retrospective study | 17 [NR] | Ultrasonography | 73 | 8 (CEA) | 0 | 5 | 8 | NR, NR | 0, 1 | ||
| Radak et al., 2010, (77) | Prospective cohort study | 309 [NR] | Ultrasonography, DSA and/or CTA | 64 | 259 (CEA) | 0 | 50 | 12 | NA, 15/40 | 8, 11 | ||
| Fox, et al., 2005, (2) | Re-analysis of NASCET and ECST trial | 262 [246, 16] | DSA | NA | 148 (CEA) | 8 | 114 | 36 | NR, 5/19 | 16, 17 | ||
| Neves, et al., 2018‡, (69) | Prospective cohort study | 46 [46, 0] | Ultrasonography and CTA | 65.7 | 19 (CAS) | 1 | 22 | 63.9 | 2/19, 3/22 | 2, 2 | ||
| Garcia-Pastor, et al., 2022, (79) | Prospective cohort study | 141 [41, 100] | DSA | 68.71 | 67 (CEA, CAS) | 4 | 74 | 24 | 2/60, NR | 12, 13 | ||
†, four patients with internal carotid artery ligation were excluded; ‡, five patients with unsuccessful CAS placement were excluded. BMT, best medical treatment; CNO, carotid near occlusion; NASCET, North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial; ECST, European Carotid Surgery Trial; NR, not recorded; DSA, digital subtraction angiography; CTA, computed tomography angiography; CEA, carotid endarterectomy; CAS, carotid artery stenting; NA, not available.