Study Population
The study was designed as a single-center, retrospective study and included 170 patients who underwent CAS due to symptomatic or asymptomatic severe carotid artery stenosis in Dicle University Medical School Hospital between December 2011 and December 2020. Patients with hematological diseases, systemic inflammatory diseases, malignancies, active infectious diseases, end-stage kidney and liver diseases, and a history of thrombolytic therapy within the last 24 hours were excluded from the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration and the study protocol was approved by the local ethics committee. The experimental protocols and the process for obtaining informed consent were approved by the appropriate institutional review committee.