STA-MCA bypass surgery for internal carotid artery occlusion--comparative follow-up study.
Sixty-three patients with internal carotid artery occlusion manifesting as transient ischemic attack or minor stroke received superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery bypass surgery and medical treatment (n = 27) or medical treatment only (n = 36). Long-term follow-up showed that there was no significant difference in the outcomes. However, positron emission tomography studies suggested that patients with misery perfusion in the chronic stage benefited from extracranial-intracranial bypass surgery.
Ishikawa
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Department of Surgical Neurology, Research Institute for Brain and Blood Vessels-Akita.
Yasui
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Suzuki
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Hadeishi
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H
Shishido
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Uemura
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K
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal; D002548:Cerebral Revascularization; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged