background: common carotid intima-media thickness (cc-imt) measured by ultrasonography as a non-invasive method is nowadays known as a marker for early atherosclerosis. objectives: survey the relationship between serum uric acid and carotid intima-media thickness considering hypertension. materials and methods: this study was designed as a comparative cross-sectional study in northern iran in 2...

objective: duplex ultrasonography is a non-invasive, non-expensive screening test for carotid disease. intima media thickness (imt) is appropriate for atherosclerosis process diagnosis. leukoaraisis (la) increase the risk of cerebrovascular accident (cva). la patients need preventive medication for cva. imt is a non-invasive diagnostic and prognostic test in la. the aim of this study was evalua...

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...

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...

To determine whether carotid intima media thickness is increased in children with primary hypertension, the current study compared carotid intima media thickness in hypertensive children with that of normotensive control subjects matched closely for body mass index and determined the relationship between carotid intima media thickness and hypertension severity determined by ambulatory blood pre...

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...

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...

BACKGROUND The thickness of the arterial intima increases and that of the media decreases with increasing age and degree of atherosclerosis. Separate estimates of the individual intima and media layers might therefore be more appropriate than the commonly used method estimating the combined intima-media thickness (IMT). METHODS AND RESULTS One hundred consecutive 70-year-old subjects from the...