Benefits and drawbacks of statins and non-statin lipid lowering agents in carotid artery disease

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Vascular Surgery, Central Clinic of Athens, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: paraskevask@hotmail.com.
• ² Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ³ Vascular Centre, Nuova Villa Claudia, Rome, Italy.
• ⁴ Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Inova Alexandria Hospital, Alexandria, VA, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ⁶ Section of Vascular Surgery, Imperial College & Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ⁷ Department for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ⁸ Vascular Surgery, University of Bologna "Alma Mater Studiorum", Policlinico S. Orsola Malpighi, Bologna, Italy.
• ⁹ Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Lisbon, Lisbon Academic Medical Center, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ¹⁰ Department of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ¹¹ Department of Vascular Surgery, "Attikon" University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ¹² Queensland Research Centre for Peripheral Vascular Disease, James Cook University and Townsville University Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
• ¹³ Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁴ Center of Atherosclerosis and Lipid Disorders, Saint-Petersburgh State University, North-Western State Medical University n.a. I.I. Mechnikov, St. Petersburgh, Russia.
• ¹⁵ Department for Vascular Surgery and Angiology, L. Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland.
• ¹⁶ Department of Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation, The University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece.
• ¹⁸ Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ¹⁹ Vascular Surgery Department, IRCSS MultiMedica Hospital, Castellanza, Italy.
• ²⁰ Athens Vascular Research Center, Athens, Greece.
• ²¹ St. George's Vascular Institute, St. George's University London, London, UK.
• ²² Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, Hospital de S. Joao, Porto, Portugal.
• ²³ Department of Surgery, University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• ²⁴ Department of Vascular Disease, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ²⁵ 1(st) Department of Vascular Surgery, Medicover Hospital, Warsaw, Poland.
• ²⁶ Department of Clinical Research, University of Poitiers, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
• ²⁷ Department of Neurology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.
• ²⁸ Department of Radiology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
• ²⁹ Department of Neurology, Center for Vascular Neurology and Intensive Care, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
• ³⁰ Neurological Clinic, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy.
• ³¹ Vascular Surgery Division, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
• ³² Stroke Diagnostic and Monitoring Division, Atheropoint™, Roseville, CA, USA.
• ³³ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, North-Western Scientific Clinical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia, St. Petersburgh, Russia.
• ³⁴ Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ³⁵ Department of Neurology & Stroke Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ³⁶ Division of Vascular Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Division of Vascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ³⁷ Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital Campus, University College London Medical School, University College London (UCL), London, UK.