title: [Management of carotid disease in acute phase of stroke: national opinion].
abstract: The Brazilian Stroke Society constituted a committee composed by specialists from different areas of Brazil that emitted a viewpoint called "National Opinion", in a consensus pattern. The study purpose is to guide and offer subsidies for diagnosis and therapeutical plans for different situations in cerebrovascular disease The present article analyzes "carotid disease in the acute phase of stroke", approaching separately the following topics: methods for detection of carotid stenosis in acute phase; when and how intervene on the carotid during the acute phase; clinical treatment and inflammatory markers. Comments based on literature and participants personal opinion are described, and conclusion are the group opinion.
authors.affiliation: Sociedade Brasileira de Doenças Cerebrovasculares, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rubens José
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Gagliardi
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: André
authors.forename: Marcia Maiumi
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Fukujima
authors.forename: Sebastião Eurico
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Melo-Souza
authors.forename: Viviane Flumignan
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Zétola
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001938:Brazil; D016893:Carotid Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D032921:Consensus; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012955:Societies, Medical; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications*