Surgical Results of Carotid Endarterectomy.

We performed 74 carotid endarterectomies in 65 patients in the last 10 years. We describe surgical results, complications and follow-up in those endarterectomies. We used internal shunts under barbiturate brain protection in all cases. Using a surgical microscope, we removed plaques as a whole block. Surgical mortality was 2.7%, transient morbidity 5.4% and permanent morbidity was 0% in symptomatic cases. In the asymptomatic cases, surgical motality was 0%, transient morbidity 2.7% and permanent morbidity was 0%. The follow-up disclosed only one case of small lacuna.