Letter by Sabour Regarding Article, “Coated-Platelets Improve Prediction of Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack in Asymptomatic Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis” | Zendy

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Letter by Sabour Regarding Article, “Coated-Platelets Improve Prediction of Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack in Asymptomatic Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis”

Author(s) -

Siamak Sabour

Publication year - 2014

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.114.007780

Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , stenosis , stroke (engine) , cardiology , cohort , internal carotid artery , radiology , mechanical engineering , engineering

I was interested to read the article by Kirkpatrick and colleagues published in Stroke 2014 Oct. The purpose of the authors was to assess potential role of coated platelet levels for risk stratification in asymptomatic patients with carotid artery stenosis.1 They reported that a cutoff of ≥45% for coated platelet levels in combination with stenosis ≥50% yielded a sensitivity of 0.78, specificity of 0.92, positive predictive value of 0.21, and a negative predictive value of 0.99 for ipsilateral stroke or transient ischemic attack.1 This …

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