AIM We evaluated the validity of circumferential carotid artery strain as a marker for subclinical atherosclerosis and its benefit in addition to carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) to detect high-risk groups. METHODS The study was a cross-sectional study. From April 2007 to July 2008, 1057 patients who had undergone both echocardiography and carotid ultrasonography were consecutively enroll...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We sought in this study to relate carotid ultrasound findings in asymptomatic older adults to the 5-year risk of various cerebrovascular outcomes used in the Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study (ACAS). METHODS The Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) is a longitudinal study of people 65 years and older. Analyses of internal carotid artery stenosis defined by multipl...

OBJECTIVE Atherosclerotic risk factors contribute to carotid atherosclerosis. Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), as assessed using a non-invasive high-resolution ultrasound, can predict cardiovascular disease (CVD). Whereas the control of CVD is crucial for the Mongolian people, the studies on carotid atherosclerosis are lacking. The present population-based survey was a cross-sectional inve...

Background and Purpose—We sought in this study to relate carotid ultrasound findings in asymptomatic older adults to the 5-year risk of various cerebrovascular outcomes used in the Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study (ACAS). Methods—The Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) is a longitudinal study of people 65 years and older. Analyses of internal carotid artery stenosis defined by multiple ...

Eight patients with common carotid artery (CCA) occlusion underwent bypass with saphenous vein to either the carotid bifurcation (five), the internal carotid artery (two), or the external carotid artery (one). Indications included ipsilateral transient ischemic attack (two), recent nondisabling hemispheric stroke (two), and transient nonhemispheric cerebral symptoms (two). Two asymptomatic pati...

The rapid , recent development of intravenous digital subtraction angiography has changed the general philosophy of screening for extracranial carotid artery occ lusive disease. However, digital subtraction angiography equipment is currently very expensive and may remain so. If a lower cost system for good visualization of the carotid artery bifurcations by intravenous injection of contrast mat...

We report a 33-year-old Malay woman presented with acute left dense hemiparesis and an NIHSS score of 11/15. Computed tomography (CT) scan brain showed a massive right middle cerebral artery (MCA) territory infarct. The right internal carotid artery (ICA) and right proximal MCA were shown occluded from digital substraction angiography (DSA). Carotid dissection, carotid canal anomaly, and interc...

Initial experience with a pulsed Doppler device coupled to a high resolution real-time sonographic scanner for noninvasive evaluation of extracranial carotid disease is reported. The primary objective was to evaluate patients with asymptomatic cervical bruits and/or equivocal histories of transient cerebral ischemia to determine which of them required further study with angiography. An assessme...

In a retrospective study, the prevalence of carotid artery calcifications on routine screening panoramic radiographs of a Dutch Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery department was investigated. Individuals older than 45 without a history of CVA, TIA or head and neck radiotherapy were included.Technically useful radiographs were available for 145 males (mean age 59.6 years) and 303 females (mean age 58....