NCT01210937

Early Warning and Optimization Strategy in Carotid Endarterectomy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 150 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Peking Union Medical College Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 40 Months – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Carotid endarterectomy has been proven effective in prevention of cerebral vascular events in patients with severe carotid artery stenosis (symptomatic,\>50%;asymptomatic,60%). But during the surgery, when the carotid artery is clipping, the patient will have the chance to have hypoperfusion or stroke. Our study is designed to determine how to use TCD to reduce the risk of death and nonfatal stroke in patients .

Detailed description

AHA guidelines recommend carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for severe carotid stenosis. But during CEA, there is little chance that the patient suffer from severe hypoperfusion or stroke. So we use TCD to monitor the blood flow of brain in the surgery and keep the blood pressure stable. The sudy is designed to find out whether the index which we found in previous work is more sensitive to show the blood flow of middle cerebral artery.

Conditions

• Carotid Stenosis
• Carotid Artery Diseases
• Stroke
• Vascular Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	CEA and TCD monitoring	All patients will receive carotid endarterectomy. During the surgery, all of them will be monitored by TCD. Record the blood flow velocity and blood pressure on specified time.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2010-09-29
• Last updated: 2012-12-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China