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The cycle of large-scale carotid intervention trials.
The long-term efficacy and procedural risks of carotid interventions have been assessed over four decades of large, randomised clinical trials. With improvements in best medical therapy, carotid surgery is again being compared to best medical therapy alone in people with symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis. CEA, carotid endarterectomy; MT, medical therapy; CAS, carotid artery stenting.
