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The incidence of stroke in the USA and Europe is about 200/100000 population per annum and increases in patients > 75 years old to 1440/100000, while the yearly incidence of death caused by stroke is 5–10% of all deaths (1–3). About 60% of survivors remain disabled (4). The costs for all the patients with cerebrovascular diseases in the United States is 15 billion dollars/year and are still increasing. Nearly 40–50% of all the strokes are caused from occlusive disease of carotis bifurcation (4).
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Weiher, U. (1998). Current therapeutical concept of carotid occlusive disease. In: Horsch, S., Ktenidis, K. (eds) Critical Limb Ischemia Carotid Surgery. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53788-2_21
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