Carotid endarterectomy has been proven effective in prevention of cerebral vascular events in patients with severe carotid artery stenosis (symptomatic,\>50%;asymptomatic,60%). But during the surgery, when the carotid artery is clipping, the patient will have the chance to have hypoperfusion or stroke. Our study is designed to determine how to use TCD to reduce the risk of death and nonfatal stroke in patients .
AHA guidelines recommend carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for severe carotid stenosis. But during CEA, there is little chance that the patient suffer from severe hypoperfusion or stroke. So we use TCD to monitor the blood flow of brain in the surgery and keep the blood pressure stable. The sudy is designed to find out whether the index which we found in previous work is more sensitive to show the blood flow of middle cerebral artery.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
150
All patients will receive carotid endarterectomy. During the surgery, all of them will be monitored by TCD. Record the blood flow velocity and blood pressure on specified time.
Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Mortality
The number of death during the first month after procedure, no matter whether the cause of death is related to the procedure
Time frame: 30 days
cardiac and neurological morbidity (TIA and CVA)
Time frame: 12 months
brain hyperperfusion
Time frame: 12 months
long term recurrence
Time frame: 12 months
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