Ref: BJS Oct 2016
Randomized clinical trial of chewing gum after laparoscopic colorectal resection
Registration number: NCT02419586
Ref: BJS Oct 2016
Registration number: NCT02419586
According to the trials, NO …. but what would you do when the plaque is ‘vulnerable’? Well … this study from Sweden for three years showed that the recurrent rate for stroke is about 7% in 3 yrs in Symptomatic mild stenosis. This is too high.
The commentary on the article put very nice rules:
A combinations of mild (20–49%) and moderate (50–69%) percent stenosis with stable or unstable plaque morphology is given in the following 2 × 2 matrix.
The four combinations for recurrent stroke risk are:
One might predict that
This is really interesting argument …