Temporal profile of brain injury and inflammatory serum markers in carotid artery stenting

 to analyze the time trend of neuronal injury markers differentiated according to morphological composition of the carotid plaques, as important factor for prognostic stratification of carotid lesions. T h i s s u b t l e n e u r o l o g i c a l damage, o f ten be low the detection threshold of clininical neurological tests, can be early d e t e c t e d b y m e a s u r i n g peripheral serum markers of brain injury (S100beta protein and neuronal-specific enolase NSE).