objective(s): atherosclerosis is a chronic immune-inflammatory disease that generally leads to ischemic heart disease. ghrelin has several modulatory effects on cardiovascular system. in this study, we investigated the effect of ghrelin on aortic intima-media thickness, size and the number of adipocyte cells in obese and control mice. materials and methods:this study was conducted on 24 male c5...

Aim: We aimed to determine with carotid Doppler ultrasound (CDU) whether the increase in inflammatory cells and mediators plays a role intima-media thickening patients allergic rhinitis (AR) correlate this severity of disease.
 Material Method: In retrospective study, CDU reports images were evaluated Group 1 (n=16). Score for (SFAR) blood parameters that Hemoglobin (Hb), White Blood Cells...

one of the important factors which should be considered in (coronary artery disease) cad cases is increased carotid intima-media thickness (imt) which has been considered to be associated with coronary artery disease severity and cardiovascular events. the goal of this study was to compare risk factors and carotid imt in cases with cad and healthy subjects and to determine the association betwe...

conclusions by measuring image quality metrics, this study showed that dtd and ctd filters with the canny edge detection respectively, are better than srad filter with the canny detection for speckle suppression and details preservation in both arteries in the ultrasound images. background ultrasonic evaluation of intima-media thickness (imt) is an early marker of assessing the development of a...

Introduction: Arteries are made up three layers; tunica intima, tunica media, and tunica adventitia. However, in some part of the artery this structure may change. The greatest change occurs at the junctions and bifurcations. In this regard, we decided to study the renal artery bifurcation just where the renal arteries divide into smaller arteries before entering the kidney. Methods: The struc...

conclusions high prevalence of the increased cimt in patients undergoing cabg highlights the significance of cimt measurement in early diagnosis of the systemic atherosclerosis. moreover, although traditional cardiovascular risk factors were important they could not explain the extension and the severity of cimt. it seems that some ultrasonographic features such as the associated carotid plaque...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The association between obesity and atherosclerotic disease is controversial. In the present analysis, we evaluated whether common carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and area, 2 markers of preclinical atherosclerosis, were increased in obese subjects. METHODS More than 5000 middle-aged women (n=5062; age, 30 to 69 years) living in the area of Naples, Southern Italy, w...

The objective of this study was to clarify the relative roles of medial versus luminal factors in the induction of thickening of the arterial intima after balloon angioplasty injury. Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and thrombin, both associated with thrombosis, and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), stored in the arterial wall, have been implicated in this process. To unequivocally is...