JACC. Cardiovascular interventions
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JACC Cardiovasc Interv · May 2010
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyHealth-related quality of life following carotid stenting versus endarterectomy: results from the SAPPHIRE (Stenting and Angioplasty with Protection in Patients at HIgh Risk for Endarterectomy) trial.
This study compared health-related quality of life in patients undergoing carotid artery stenting (CAS) versus surgical endarterectomy (CEA). ⋯ Among patients at high surgical risk, CAS was associated with less health status impairment during the first 2 weeks of recovery when compared with CEA. However, these differences had resolved by 1 month after the procedure, and no other differences between revascularization strategies in health-related quality of life were found.