purpose: to assess the relationship between the severity of coronary arteries involvement and the extent and pattern of myocardial scars in cardiac magnetic resonance of patients with history of remote myocardial infarction. materials and methods: the cardiac magnetic resonance images of sixty patients with history of remote st segment or non-st segment elevation myocardial infarction were revi...

Purpose: To assess the usefulness and reproducibility of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) for evaluation intracranial aneurysms treated by endovascular coiling.

OBJECTIVE The findings of magnetic resonance and x-ray angiography were compared for assessment of coronary artery stenosis in this validation study. BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance angiography of the coronary arteries has recently been described, but there has been no comparison with x-ray angiography of localisation or assessment of important characteristics of coronary stenosis. METHODS A ...

Jugular vein aneurysms are rare vascular abnormalities that are most commonly encountered in the pediatric population. We report two separate cases in infants, both of whom presented with enlarging neck masses and were found to have jugular vein aneurysms. Diagnosis was established with duplex ultrasonography, computed tomography angiography, digitally subtracted catheter venography, and magnet...

Distribution of atherosclerotic vascular lesions in the intracranial posterior circulation has not been as well documented as in the anterior circulation. Data regarding this aspect among Asian stroke patients are scarce. In present study, we sought to investigate the distribution of posterior circulation vascular lesions in Chinese stroke patients. We examined consecutive patients with acute i...

BACKGROUND The significance of the stenotic lesions of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) in Asian patients with striatocapsular small, deep infarctions (SSDIs) remains undetermined. OBJECTIVES To investigate the frequency of stenotic lesions of the MCA in patients with SSDIs and to evaluate clinical and radiological features in those same patients. SETTING Acute stroke registry of a universi...