Clinical Comparison of Outcomes of Early versus Delayed Carotid Artery Stenting for Symptomatic Cerebral Watershed Infarction due to Stenosis of the Proximal Internal Carotid Artery

Table 3

Functional outcome 90 days after CAS in both groups.

	Early CAS Group	Delayed CAS Group	value
NHISS score 90 days after CAS			0.006
-value of NHISS score			0.000
mRS score ≤ 2 90 days after CAS, (%)	50 (79%)	35 (61%)	0.031

NHISS score, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score. -value, the difference between mean NHISS score 90 days after CAS and mean NHISS score at admission. mRS score, modified Rankin Scale score.
Independent sample -test.
Chi-square statistics.