Clarifying the rationale supporting selective screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Vascular Surgery, Central Clinic of Athens, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Department of Surgery, University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• ³ Stroke Prevention and Atherosclerosis Research Centre, Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital Campus, University College London Medical School, University College London (UCL), London, UK.
• ⁵ Vascular Surgery Department, IRCSS Multimedica Hospital, Castellanza, Italy.
• ⁶ Athens Vascular Research Center, Athens, Greece.
• ⁷ Vascular medicine department, Georges Pompidou European hospital, APHP, Université de Paris Cité, Paris, France.
• ⁸ Vascular Surgery, University of Bologna "Alma Mater Studiorum", Policlinico S. Orsola Malpighi, Bologna, Italy.
• ⁹ Jagiellonian University Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland.
• ¹⁰ Stroke Diagnostic and Monitoring Division, Atheropoint(TM), Roseville, CA, USA.
• ¹¹ Neurological Clinic, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy.
• ¹² Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Lisbon, Lisbon Academic Medical Center, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ¹³ Department for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Department of Vascular Surgery and Angiology, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
• ¹⁵ Vascular Surgery Division, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
• ¹⁷ Department of Neurology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.
• ¹⁸ Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
• ¹⁹ Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurobiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy.
• ²⁰ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, North-Western Scientific Clinical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• ²¹ Vascular Centre, Nuova Villa Claudia, Rome, Italy.
• ²² Department of Vascular Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ²³ Department of Radiology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
• ²⁴ Department of Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation, The University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
• ²⁵ Department of Vascular Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ²⁶ Western Vascular Institute, Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Galway, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
• ²⁷ Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ²⁸ Department of Surgery "Paride Stefanini", Policlinico Umberto I, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
• ²⁹ 1(st) Department of Vascular Surgery, Medicover Hospital, Warsaw, Poland.
• ³⁰ Department of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ³¹ Department of Surgery (Division of Vascular Surgery), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ³² Department of Surgery and Cancer, Section of Vascular Surgery, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK.
• ³³ Department of Vascular Surgery, "Attikon" University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ³⁴ Department of Clinical Research, University of Poitiers, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
• ³⁵ Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, Hospital de S. Joao, Porto, Portugal.
• ³⁶ Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ³⁷ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.