If it is truly asymptomatic, as mine was, how the hell do you even know about it?
Would this test also work for carotid stenosis?
The latest here:
Until now, degree of stenosis has been regarded as being predictive of risk of stroke
in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis, but not in those with asymptomatic
stenosis. In their analysis of a cohort from the Oxford Vascular Study (OxVasc) in
The Lancet Neurology, Dominic Howard and colleaguesreport that the degree of stenosis can predict risk of stroke among patients with
asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Out of 2178 patients in OxVasc who underwent carotid
imaging because of stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA), 207 (10%) had a 50–99%
carotid stenosis. The 5-year risk of stroke in patients with less than 70% stenosis
was only 2% (Rothwell P, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; personal communication).
In patients with 70–79% stenosis, it was 14·6% (95% CI 3·5–25·7), and in patients
with 80–99% stenosis it was 18·3% (7·7–29·9).
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