INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to evaluate cerebral microangiopathy in type 2 noninsulin- dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) patients and to establish potentially conducive factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS A group of 34 patients with NIDDM and 31 gender- and agematched normal controls (NC) were assessed by extracranial Doppler ultrasound, in order to evaluate the pulsatility index (PI) ...

BACKGROUND Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is caused by auto immune destruction of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas. Currently available treatments include transplantation of isolated islets from donor pancreas to the patient. However, this method is limited by inadequate means of immuno-suppression to prevent islet rejection and importantly, limited supply of islets for transplantation. A...

OBJECTIVE The clinical significance of an intramural course (or bridging) of the coronary artery remains controversial. We investigated the relationship between intramural coronary arteries (ICAs) and coronary stenosis and prognosis of subjects with ICA. METHODS AND RESULTS ICA and coronary stenosis were assessed by multidetector computed tomography coronary angiography. ICAs in the left ante...

BACKGROUND Childhood asthma morbidity and mortality in New Orleans, Louisiana, is among the highest in the nation. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina created an environmental disaster that led to high levels of mold and other allergens and disrupted health care for children with asthma. OBJECTIVES We implemented a unique hybrid asthma counselor and environmental intervention based on successfu...

Intelligent cognitive assistant (ICA) technology is used in various domains to emulate human behavior expressed through synchronous communication, especially written conversation. Due their ability use individually tailored natural language, they present a powerful vessel support attitude and change. Behavior change systems are emerging as crucial tool digital mental health services, ICAs excee...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Elevated blood pressure (BP) is associated with greater severity of intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS) and increased risk of ischemic stroke. Because little is known about the relationship of maintained BP level with progression of symptomatic ICAS (sICAS), we evaluated the independent association of maintained systolic BP (SBP) with risk of sICAS progression. ...

BACKGROUND Wingspan stenting for the treatment of complex intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS), i.e., that involving tortuous vascular pathways, long (>15 mm) lesions or arterial bifurcations, has a relatively high risk of complications. This retrospective study assessed the safety and efficacy of undersized balloon angioplasty followed by deployment of the more flexible Enterprise sten...

PURPOSE To measure the cerebral autoregulatory status of the brain tissue supplied by the individual brain-feeding arteries in patients with symptomatic stenosis of the internal carotid artery (ICA) by using arterial spin-labeling (ASL) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and to compare this status with that in healthy controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS Institutional review board approval and inform...

Semantic labeling of coronary arterial segments in invasive angiography (ICA) is important for automated assessment and report generation artery stenosis computer-aided disease (CAD) diagnosis. However, separating identifying individual challenging because morphological similarities different branches on the tree human-to-human variabilities exist. Inspired by training procedure interventional ...