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Cognitive performance following endarterectomy in asymptomatic severe carotid stenosis
J Aharon-Peretz1, R Tomer, I Gabrieli
1Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. jaharon@rambam.health.gov.il
European Journal of Neurology
|August 28, 2003
Abstract:
Cognition and the effects of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) were evaluated in 22 non-demented subjects with vascular risk factors (VRF) and asymptomatic severe carotid artery stenosis (ASCAS), 14 volunteers with VRF but without stenosis, and 24 healthy controls (HC) without VRF. Non-demented subjects with VRF, with or without carotid stenosis scored inferior to HC. It is concluded that carotid stenosis is not a primary cause of cognitive deterioration and CEA does not improve cognition in patients with ASCAS.