Assertion: carotid endarterectomy | /r/HasProperty | performed for asymptomatic carotid stenosis
Facets:
value: with mortality
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Recent publications have documented the risk of surgery as ranging from 0.0% to 3.8%.148149150151 A survey of surgeons participating in ACAS yielded an experience of 1511 operations for asymptomatic stenosis with a combined operative mortality and neurological morbidity of 1.7%.32 A review of an experience in the community of Rochester, NY, during the sample years 1984 through 1985 identified 226 carotid endarterectomies performed for asymptomatic carotid stenosis with a combined operative morbidity and mortality of 3.9%.152