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Real-world experience of treatment decision-making in carotid stenosis in a neurovascular board

Rimmele, DL
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Larena-Avellaneda, A
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Alegiani, AC
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2017
Neurology

Objective: To describe our experience with consensus-based decision-making for treatment of internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis by neurologists, interventional neuroradiologists, vascular surgeons, and neurosurgeons in a multidisciplinary neurovascular board and to study adherence to treatment recommendations in the context of uncertainty with respect to the best treatment option. Methods: We established a multidisciplinary neurovascular board meeting twice a week with structured documentation of consensus decisions. Over a time period of 53 months, 614 cases with ICA stenosis were discussed, with 285 (46%) symptomatic and 279 (45%) asymptomatic cases. Results: Recommendation for symptomatic ICA stenosis was revascularization in 76%, medical management alone in 8%, and further diagnostics in 16%. For asymptomatic ICA stenosis, recommendation was randomization in a clinical trial in 29%, revascularization in 27%, medical management alone in 23%, and further diagnostics in 22%. Treatment recommendations were followed in 94% of symptomatic ICA stenosis and 69% of asymptomatic ICA stenosis. Patients in whom carotid artery stenting was recommended for revascularization were younger and showed a higher rate of severe ($ 70%) ICA stenosis. Conclusions: Interdisciplinary board decisions are a helpful and transparent tool to assure adherence to guideline recommendations, and to provide consensus-based individualized treatment strategies in clinical practice in the absence of unequivocal evidence.

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research article
DOI
10.1212/WNL.0000000000004151
Web of Science ID

WOS:000406096400025

Author(s)
Rimmele, DL
Larena-Avellaneda, A
Alegiani, AC
Rosenkranz, M
Schmidt, NO
Regelsberger, J
Hummel, Friedhelm Christoph  
Magnus, T
Debus, ES
Fiehler, J
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Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published in
Neurology
Volume

89

Issue

4

Start page

399

End page

407

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

OTHER

EPFL units
UPHUMMEL  
Available on Infoscience
July 12, 2017
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/139263
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