results the incidence of diagnosed thrombo-embolic complication was 32 of 1,153 admitted patients (2.8%; 95% confidence interval: 1.9 to 3.9) with a median interval of 14 days after anti-tb treatment initiation. the incidence of dvt and pte was 2% and 1%, respectively. thrombo-embolic events and dvt were more common in men than in women: 4.2% versus 1.3% (p = 0.003) and 3.5% versus 0.4%, respec...

increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines have been recorded after the onset  of transient  or  permanent  brain  ischemia and  are  usually associated with  exacerbation  of ischemic injury. embolic stroke model is more relevant to the pathophysiological situation in such  patients, because the  majority of  ischemic injuries in humans  are induced  by old thrombi that originate from the h...

Almost any system for the detection of asymptomatic circulating emboli by Doppler ultrasound employs the fast Fourier Transform (FFT). However, the FFT is not ideally suited to study short-lived embolic signals. The wavelet transform (WT) is an optimized way of analyzing short-lived signals and performs better than the FFT in some respect. We propose a detection method based on the discrete wav...

Patient records in 36 consecutively identified patients with typical echocardiographic findings of atrial septal aneurysm were reviewed. Ten of the 36 (28%) had cerebrovascular events. Of these 10, 5 had completed strokes of definite embolic origin on the basis of clinical, angiographic, and computed tomographic findings; 2 had transient ischemic attacks of probable embolic origin. One of the 3...

Background and Purpose: Ischemic episodes distal to an internal carotid artery occlusion are common. We undertook this study to look for evidence of transhemispheric passage of embolic material in this patient category as a mechanism for embolic events. Methods: Seven symptomatic patients with unilateral internal carotid artery occlusion and contralateral stenosis were examined by transcranial ...

objective(s) previous studies have demonstrated that pretreatment with alpha-tocotrienol (a-tct) can reduce ischemic damage in mice following middle cerebral artery (mca) occlusion. it is also reported to decrease stroke- dependent brain tissue damage in 12-lox-deficient mice and spontaneously hypertensive rats. in the present study, the neuroprotective effects of a-tct and rosiglitazone (rgz) ...

myxomas, the most common primary cardiac tumors, are known as a source of cardiogenic emboli. the possibility of their early detection has made them of great importance for emergency medicines. detection of the disease is probable at early stages using echocardiography and associate complications such as syncope, cerebral embolic ischemic strokes, and sudden death. we report experience of a rar...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Asymptomatic embolic signal detection with the use of Doppler ultrasound has a number of potential clinical applications. However, its more widespread clinical use is severely limited by the lack of a reliable automated detection system. Design of such a system depends on accurate characterization of the unique features of embolic signals, which allow their differentiatio...

BACKGROUND Platelet activation appears to play an important role in thromboembolic complications of infective endocarditis (IE). Mean platelet volume (MPV) is a potentially useful marker of platelet activity and a quick and easy determinant of thrombotic risk. Hence the aim of this study was to investigate the baseline platelet volume indices (MPV and platelet distribution width [PDW]) in IE pa...

AIMS Inflammation-induced procoagulant changes and endothelial cell activation appear to play an important role in thromboembolic complications of infective endocarditis. Hence, the aim of this study was to compare the plasma levels of soluble adhesion molecules E- and P-selectin in infective endocarditis patients with and without embolic events, and healthy subjects. METHODS AND RESULTS The ...