impaired fasting glucose identifies individuals at high risk of progression to diabetes but the role of ifg as a coronary artery disease risk factor, independent of its progression to diabetes and its association with other coronary artery disease risk factors ,is unclear. a cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate the hypothesis that impaired fasting glucose increased the likelihood of ...

Eklöf, H. 2005. On renal artery stenosis. 54 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-506-1824-5. Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is a potentially curable cause of hypertension and azotemia. Besides intra-arterial renal angiography there are several non-invasive techniques utilized to diagnose patients with suspicion of renal artery stenosis. Removing the stenosis by revascularization to restore unobstructed blood flo...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The relation between anterior ischemic optic neuropathy and carotid artery atherosclerotic disease is unclear. We studied patients with anterior ischemic optic neuropathy to determine if they had an increased occurrence of carotid artery stenosis. METHODS Fifteen consecutive patients with anterior ischemic optic neuropathy were evaluated prospectively for cervical carot...

The role of angiotensin II (All) in pressor hyperresponsiveness was examined in conscious one-kidney, one clip rabbits with renal artery stenosis 01 3-days' duration (renal prehypertensive rabbits). Conscious one-kidney rabbits without renal artery stenosis served as controls. Two experiments were performed. The first experiment used four groups of six rabbits each, to examine the pressor respo...

BACKGROUND Stenosis of brain vessels in 5-10% of cases causes ischemic disesase of the brain. Atherosclerosis is a cause of stenosis in 95% of cases. Patients with basilar artery stenosis and recurrent ischemic attacks are candidate for stroke in 50% of cases in the first two years. CASE REPORT A 48-year old man presented with a 12-month history of transitory ischemic attacks, periodical loss...

BACKGROUND A major debate in cerebrovascular medicine today is over the choice of the best treatment to implement for stenosis of the carotid artery. Carotid artery stenting is a less invasive technique than endarterectomy for the treatment of carotid stenosis, and is becoming more widely performed, particularly on patients with carotid artery stenosis who present also with comorbidities. To ad...

Carotid artery stenosis is a notable cause of ocular ischemic disease. To analyze the ocular ischemic diseases caused by carotid artery stenosis and to seek effective treatment, a retrospective review of 182 patients with carotid artery stenosis was performed. These patients were administered medical treatment, carotid artery stenting (CAS) or carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and the curative effec...

Even though most vertebral artery anomalies are asymptomatic, but the normally arising from superoposterior surface of its ipsilateral subclavian artery, plays a vital role, via Subclavian Steal Syndrome to help in vascularization upper limb anatomical structures. The case left with proximal origin stenosis 72 year -old female cadaver is reported and pathophysiological consequences an hypothesi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Atherosclerosis of the major intracranial arteries is an important cause of ischemic stroke. We established measurement criteria to assess percent stenosis of a major intracranial artery (carotid, middle cerebral, vertebral, basilar) and determined the interobserver/intraobserver agreements and interclass/intraclass correlations of these measurements. METHODS We defined...