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Advantages of Stenting:
Preferable for treatment of patients at higher risk, with advanced disease (eg. more than 70% stenosis) with inaccessible anatomy, or after failed endarterectomy. It is not always reimbursed via medicare unless the patient has co-morbidities.
Advantages of stenting include quicker recovery, no incision in the neck, improved patient comfort postoperatively
Disadvantages of stenting include occasional lack of reimbursement, poorer long term outcome,
Endarterectomy is the gold standard, is suitable for patients with stenosis above 50%, with accessible arteries, and ac
Advantages of endarterectomy include:
Disadvantages of endarterectomy are: Incision in neck which is uncomfortable postoperatively,