title: [5-year follow-up after endarterectomy of carotid artery thrombosis].
abstract: The long-term results of carotid endarterectomy were analysed in 119 patients, operated on between January 1979 and December 1980 (135 endarterectomies; preoperative data analysed retrospectively). 43 patients had been in stage I, 39 in stage IIa, 13 in stage IIb, 4 in stage III, and 20 in stage IV. Perioperative mortality was 0.8%, while hospital mortality was 2.5%. Transitory perioperative neurological deficits occurred in 4.2% of all patients, but no permanent ones. Five years postoperatively 44.5% had died, nearly half (43.4%) of cardiovascular disease. Cerebrovascular disease and tumour each caused 15% of deaths. During the five-year follow-up period 12% of all patients had had transitory ischaemic attacks; 16% had suffered a stroke (in 63% on the operated side). With a high prevalence of risk factors, only the quality of diabetic control (mortality rate of well controlled diabetes 38%, of poorly controlled 70%) and the risk factors heart failure and vascular occlusive disease had a significant influence on the mortality rate. But the mortality rate was significantly lowered with the use of platelet aggregation inhibitors (41.6% vs 72.7%).
authors.affiliation: III. Medizinische Abteilung, Städtisches Krankenhaus München-Schwabing.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stiegler
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Forssman
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Standl
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maschler
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Baumann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002341:Carotid Artery Thrombosis / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D002423:Cause of Death; D004691:Endarterectomy / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Fünf-Jahres-Verlauf nach Thrombendarteriektomie der A. carotis.