Cooling-Induced Carotid Artery Dilatation

Cooling-induced carotid artery dilatation: an experimental study in isolated vessels.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Clinical and experimental studies seem to indicate that hypothermia may improve outcome in stroke victims and reduce experimental brain injury. The current interpretation is that cooling has a neuroprotective effect by reducing brain metabolism. The objective of our study was to test the hypothesis that hypothermia induces arterial vasodilatation and thereby increases cer...

Seham Mustafa and Olav Thulesius Cooling-Induced Carotid Artery Dilatation: An Experimental Study in Isolated Vessels

Cooling-Induced Carotid Artery Dilatation: An Experimental Study in Isolated Vessels Print ISSN: 0039-2499. Online ISSN: 1524-4628 Copyright © 2002 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Stroke doi: 10.1161/hs0102.101545 2002;33:256-260 Stroke. http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/33/1/256 W...

Compensatory carotid artery dilatation in early atherosclerosis.

BACKGROUND From pathological studies of coronary arteries, it has been recognized that progressive plaque development may be compensated for by an increase of the arterial diameter. However, the dynamics of this process have not been investigated, and it is not known whether compensatory dilatation is a general pathomechanism in human arteries. METHODS AND RESULTS Using a high-resolution dupl...

Carotid artery stenting without post-stenting balloon dilatation

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical outcome and MRI findings after carotid artery stenting (CAS) without post-dilatation. METHODS Between May 2005 and April 2012, a total of 169 consecutive patients (61.4% symptomatic) underwent 176 CAS procedures performed with an embolic protection device (GuardWire, n=116; FilterWire EZ, n=60). All stents were deployed without post-dilatation. Periprocedural ...

A Penetrating Pellet Jeopardizing Internal Carotid Artery