Major Adverse Cardiac Events After Carotid Endarterectomy

Mahidol University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Carotid Stenosis

Adverse Cardiac Events

Carotid Endarterectomy

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03596229

2018_1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Carotid endarterectomy is the operation for curing the significant carotid artery stenotic patients who are also at high cardiac risk. This retrospective study is to find out the incidence and risk factors related.

Full description

The investigator plan to retrospectively investigate 175 carotid endarterectomy patients in Siriraj hospital to find the incidences of major adverse cardiac events, including

Myocardial infarction is defined as rising of cardiac bio-markers in the setting of myocardial ischemia (Relevant anginal symptoms, ECG changes or Imaging e.g. Echocardiography)2,10
Significant arrhythmia is defined as symptomatic or causing hemodynamic changes without other explainable causes.
Heart failure is defined according to Modified Framingham criteria3
Cardiac death is defined as mortality in association and as a direct result from myocardial infarction, arrhythmia or heart failure

if possible, the investigators will try to find the associate or risk factors for those events.

Enrollment

175 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria