| 1. | In endarterectomy, the surgeon opens the artery and removes the plaque.
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| 2. | Carotid endarterectomies have been on the rise as their effectiveness has been established.
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| 3. | Recent studies suggest angioplasty and endarterectomy are roughly equal in effectiveness and complications.
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| 4. | Doctors say it could be an alternative to endarterectomy, the standard surgery.
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| 5. | A carotid endarterectomy may itself cause a stroke at the time of operation.
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| 6. | Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high grade carotid stenosis.
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| 7. | Controversy has surrounded carotid endarterectomy almost from the time it was introduced in 1954.
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| 8. | An estimated 91, 000 carotid endarterectomies were performed in 1992 in this country.
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| 9. | And the death risk from endarterectomy was remarkably low _ less than 1 percent.
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| 10. | Surgery called carotid endarterectomy has become a common method for reducing such plaque buildups.
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