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Sapphire: pierre precieuse ou ersatz?
Limet, Raymond
2005In Revue Médicale de Liège, 60 (7-8, Jul-Aug), p. 683-8
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Abstract :
[en] The SAPPHIRE trial compared the results of carotid endarteriectomy to those of carotid artery stenting with an emboli-protection device in patients with carotid artery stenosis and coexisting conditions that potentially increased the risk posed by endarteriectomy. The trial concluded that stenting was not inferior to endarteriectomy. This publication was selected by the AHA among the "Top Ten of Heart Disease and Stroke Research" for 2004. Yet, from the start, it raised a considerable controversy which was already exposed in the Editorial which appeared in the same issue of the NEJM. The present paper analyses and summarizes the various potential bias which raised suspicion regarding the SAPPHIRE data. It also underlines the fact that the results obtained in the SAPPHIRE surgical series are considerably inferior to those generally cited in the literature, or those obtained locally.
Disciplines :
Cardiovascular & respiratory systems
Surgery
Author, co-author :
Limet, Raymond ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Chirurgie cardio-vasculaire et thoracique
Language :
French
Title :
Sapphire: pierre precieuse ou ersatz?
Alternative titles :
[en] sapphire: Precious Stone or Ersatz?
Publication date :
2005
Journal title :
Revue Médicale de Liège
ISSN :
0370-629X
eISSN :
2566-1566
Publisher :
Université de Liège. Revue Médicale de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Volume :
60
Issue :
7-8, Jul-Aug
Pages :
683-8
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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