{"id":127,"date":"2013-10-22T01:08:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T01:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2013-10-22T01:08:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T01:08:04","slug":"indications-for-a-carotid-endarterectomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/indications-for-a-carotid-endarterectomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Indications for a Carotid Endarterectomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>When is a Carotid Endarterectomy Performed<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Asymptomatic<\/span> patients:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A Carotid Endarterectomy is indicated in patients with stenosis greater than <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">60%<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Symptomatic<\/span> patients:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A Carotid Endarterectomy is indicated in symptomatic patients with stenosis greater than <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>70%<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>If there are multiple episodes of TIAs, then operate when the stenosis is greater than 50%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/carotidendarterectomy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-128\" alt=\"carotidendarterectomy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/carotidendarterectomy-300x183.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/carotidendarterectomy-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/carotidendarterectomy.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture credit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/medical\/IM01657\">http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/medical\/IM01657<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: These are notes only. \u00a0Every patient and condition is different and requires a in person consultation with a medical doctor. \u00a0No medical advice is contained here, just academic discussion which may be very different from real life. \u00a0 There&#8217;s always ongoing trials and the information here may be out of date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is a Carotid Endarterectomy Performed Asymptomatic patients: A Carotid Endarterectomy is indicated in patients with stenosis greater than 60% Symptomatic patients: A Carotid Endarterectomy is indicated in symptomatic patients with stenosis greater than 70% If there are multiple episodes of TIAs, then operate when the stenosis is greater than 50% Picture credit: http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/medical\/IM01657 Disclaimer: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/indications-for-a-carotid-endarterectomy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indications for a Carotid Endarterectomy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}