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The management of patients with coexistent carotid and coronary artery disease (CAD) depends upon the circumstances of clinical presentation. Most surgeons would agree that symptomatic carotid stenosis requires prompt, if not urgent, surgical therapy based on presentation. In such patients,…
Historical Background Although Carrea, Molins, and Murphy performed a successful carotid resection in 1951 and DeBakey completed a successful carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in 1953, the potential benefit of surgical treatment for symptomatic carotid occlusive disease was first highlighted by Eastcott,…