title: Surgical management of synchronous carotid and coronary artery disease.
abstract: To determine the safest method of treating simultaneously occurring coronary artery disease and asymptomatic carotid stenosis, patients were randomly assigned to either combined operation or a staged procedure with coronary artery surgery done first, followed by carotid endarterectomy. In the initial 70 patients, there were two strokes (5.9%) and two deaths (5.9%) in the combined group and four strokes (11%) and one death (2.8%) in the group with coronary artery surgery performed first.
mesh_terms: D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization; D011897:Random Allocation