Duplex ultrasound is currently used both for screening and for preoperative assessment of the carotid arteries and has completely replaced carotid angiography for the latter purpose in many institutions. The study aimed to identify resistivity index abnormalities in the common carotid arteries in patients with occluded or severely stenosed internal carotid arteries. Sixteen patients with severe...

A 34-year-old, single Japanese woman with active Takayasu's disease presented with stenosed bilateral common carotid arteries, subtotal occlusion of the left subclavian artery, and complete occlusion of the ipsilateral proximal vertebral artery, as demonstrated by angiography. A right subclavian-Jeft vertebral bypass using an autologous saphenous vein graft was successfully performed after 36 d...

We report a difficult case of recurrent carotid blowout syndrome in a patient who had a rupture of the common carotid artery with formation of a large pseudoaneurysm. Conventional management of this emergency, consisting of composite occlusion of the internal and common carotid arteries, was not possible owing to prior clinical failure of balloon test occlusion. This led to an initial attempt t...

A 34-year-old, single Japanese woman with active Takayasu's disease presented with stenosed bilateral common carotid arteries, subtotal occlusion of the left subclavian artery, and complete occlusion of the ipsilateral proximal vertebral artery, as demonstrated by angiography. A right subclavian-left vertebral bypass using an autologous saphenous vein graft was successfully performed after 36 d...

Background and purpose Despite advances in endovascular therapies, some patients experience vertebral artery stenosis or subclavian occlusion may not benefit from less-invasive angioplasty/stenting. This study described 4 cases which carotid-vertebral transposition (CVT) carotid-subclavian (CST) was adapted when treatment unfeasible unsuccessful. Presentation Case 1: A 65-year-old woman present...

OBJECTIVES Carotid artery pseudo-occlusion is a rare condition and its natural history and clinicopathological characteristics are not well defined. We reported our 7-year experience in the surgical treatment of carotid artery pseudo-occlusion to determine the real benefit of the surgical option. METHODS From January 2006 to December 2013, 1414 patients were treated for high-grade stenosis of...

background the behcet disease is a multisystemic disease with involvement of vessels. objectives our aim is to evaluate the frequency of carotid artery disease in asymptomatic carotid artery involvement in patients with behcet disease and compare the results with a control group. patients and methods fifty patients with behcet disease who were asymptomatic for any vascular involvement and 50 he...