Abstract

Carotid interventions are increasingly performed in select patients after acute stroke. We aimed to determine the effects of presenting stroke severity (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale [NIHSS]) and use of systemic thrombolysis (tPA) on clinical and discharge neurologic outcomes (modified Rankin scale [mRS] score) after urgent carotid endarterectomy (uCEA) and urgent carotid artery stenting (uCAS).

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