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GALA: an international multicentre randomised trial comparing general anaesthesia versus local anaesthesia for carotid surgery

BACKGROUND: Patients who have severe narrowing at or near the origin of the internal carotid artery as a result of atherosclerosis have a high risk of ischaemic stroke ipsilateral to the arterial lesion. Previous trials have shown that carotid endarterectomy improves long-term outcomes, particularly...

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Autores principales: Gough, Michael J, Bodenham, Andrew, Horrocks, Michael, Colam, Bridget, Lewis, Steff C, Rothwell, Peter M, Banning, Adrian P, Torgerson, David, Gough, Moira, Dellagrammaticas, Demosthenes, Leigh-Brown, Anne, Liapis, Christos, Warlow, Charles
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2413207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18495004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-9-28