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Carotid angioplasty and stenting is associated with a perioperative stroke rate exceeding 3% in most series, largely due to emboli.
A 2002 National Institutes of Health study found that hormone replacement therapy was associated with such an elevated risk of heart disease, stroke, pulmonary emboli, and breast cancer that the study was stopped prematurely [19].
(1) Pulmonary emboli : clinical diagnosis supported by ventilation/perfusion lung scan, pulmonary angiogram or venous studies.
Initial encouraging results in the European and Canadian registries were confirmed in the Saphenous Vein Graft Angioplasty Free of Emboli, Randomized (SAFER) trial conducted in the United States (US) [ 17].
Despite this, a ventilation-perfusion scan performed 13 d later showed multiple pulmonary emboli (Figure 1).