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. 1985 Jul;202(1):28–35. doi: 10.1097/00000658-198507000-00004

Recurrent carotid stenosis. A five-year series of 65 reoperations.

M B Das, N R Hertzer, N B Ratliff, P J O'Hara, E G Beven
PMCID: PMC1250832  PMID: 4015210

Abstract

From 1979 to 1983, 1726 carotid endarterectomies were performed at the Cleveland Clinic. During this period, 39 men (mean age, 60 years) and 22 women (mean age, 63 years) required 65 reoperations (3.8%) for correction of recurrent carotid stenosis occurring 3 to 194 months (mean, 42 months) after previous endarterectomy at this center (N = 43) or elsewhere (N = 22). Remedial procedures were necessary because of restenosis demonstrated by routine noninvasive testing in 32 asymptomatic lesions and because of neurologic symptoms in 33 others. The mean recurrence interval was 57 postoperative months for atherosclerosis (N = 37) in comparison to 21 months (p = 0.0007) for myointimal hyperplasia (N = 28), and was 48 months for men in comparison to 31 months for women (p = NS). Hypercholesterolemia appeared to be associated with late atherosclerotic recurrence (p = 0.05), but was not a feature of myointimal hyperplasia. Patch angioplasty (N = 59) or graft replacement (N = 3) was employed during 62 of the 65 reoperations, with a total of two operative deaths (3.1%), one nonfatal stroke (1.5%), and six transient cranial nerve injuries (9.2%). Three unrelated late deaths have occurred within a mean follow-up period of 23 months, but only three patients have experienced subsequent neurologic symptoms.

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