endarterectomy
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of endarterectomy
First recorded in 1955–60; endarter(ium) + -ectomy
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In fact, to enter into CHEST-1, patients had to be deemed inoperable or had residual PH after undergoing pulmonary endarterectomy.
From Forbes ● Jul. 24, 2013
This year alone, more than 100,000 Americans will undergo carotid endarterectomy, a Roto-Rooter-like procedure designed to scoop fatty blockages from the carotid artery in the neck.
From Time Magazine Archive
One such procedure is the carotid endarterectomy, performed to remove a clot from a neck artery.
From Time Magazine Archive
But a report shows that in patients who don't have any other symptoms, the risk of a stroke originating in the carotid artery is the same with or without an endarterectomy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Doctors disagree all the time about whether a carotid endarterectomy or a coronary bypass will offer a patient the best shot at recovery.
From Time Magazine Archive
The patients underwent carotid endarterectomies, a procedure in which the artery is opened and the plaque is cleaned out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Medicare patients in McAllen received forty per cent more surgery, almost twice as many bladder scopes and heart studies, and two to three times as many pacemakers, cardiac bypass operations, carotid endarterectomies, and coronary stents.
From The New Yorker ● May 4, 2015
A Rand Corp. review of carotid endarterectomies, operations aimed at clearing blocked neck arteries, found nearly a third of the procedures "inappropriate."
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead he combines bypass grafts with the gas endarterectomies in what his operating team calls a "gas and pass" procedure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rand studies have found that in some regions of the country as many as 44% of coronary bypass surgeries and 64% of artery-clearing carotid endarterectomies were either unnecessary or highly questionable.
From Time Magazine Archive
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