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Intraindividual results of CAS and CEA - is it the patient rather than the technology that predicts good or bad results? Giovanni Torsello Münster. e-mail: giovanni.torsello@sfh-muenster.de home page: www.gefaesschirurgie-muenster.de.
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Intraindividual results of CAS and CEA - is it the patient rather than the technology that predicts good or bad results? Giovanni Torsello Münster e-mail: giovanni.torsello@sfh-muenster.de home page: www.gefaesschirurgie-muenster.de
Results of CAS vs. CEA are well documented in the literature Can these results be extrapolated to the general population ?
Limitations of CRT‘real life’ data ? • – Real world patients and practice ? • limited inclusion/exclusion criteria • most patients refuse participation • • different procedural specifications and expertise • • patients with different risk profiles
Aims of our study • obtain more reliable results of both methods • evaluation of both techniques in the same patient • reduce patient-related factors
Materials and Methods • Retrospective evaluation of prospectively collected data • High volume center (over 2300 subjects consecutively treated between 2000 and 2011) • Long-term follow-up of 75 patients treated with both techniques • Annual visits through 11 years
Limitations of the unprecedented study • Small sample number (CEA and CAS in the same patient is rare; 3.5%) • Lack of randomization • Different follow-up times (CEA > CAS) • Different age at treatment (CAS > CEA)
Take homemessages Intraindividual comparison offers some advantages that remedy bias connected to RCTs 1 After 5 years of follow-up, stroke and restenosis rates are low after CEA and CAS in a high-volume center 2 3 Individually taylored therapy is probably the key of success
Thank you ! home page: www.gefaesschirurgie-muenster.de Universitätsklinik Münster St. Franziskushospital Münster