Failure of Cerebral Hemodynamic Selection in General or of Specific Positron Emission Tomography Methodology?
Author(s) -
Andrew P. Carlson,
Howard Yonas,
YueFang Chang,
Edwin M. Nemoto
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.111.627745
Subject(s) - medicine , positron emission tomography , hemodynamics , nuclear medicine , gold standard (test) , ischemia , occlusion , selection (genetic algorithm) , cardiology , anesthesia , artificial intelligence , computer science
The Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study (COSS) was an improvement over the Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass Study, which did not utilize physiological selection. To assess possible reasons for early closure of the COSS trial, we reviewed COSS methods used to identify high-risk patients and compared results with separate quantitative data.
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