background: scuba divers work in high pressure conditions which may cause some changes in physiological status to adapt to this situation. in this study, the carotid intima-media thickness (cimt) was assessed in divers as a risk factor of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disorders. methods: this historical cohort study was performed on 16 male professional scuba divers as case group and 30 he...

conclusions la increases the risk of cva and dementia. the la pathology is unknown. the epidemiological studies revealed the age, diabetes, smoking and atherosclerosis are related with la. our findings showed that cimt as an atherosclerosis marker was higher in la patients than control group. results totally 200 patients were studied, 102 in normal group and 98 in ila group. the mean age of pat...

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: atherosclerosis disease, inflammation and malnutrition have strong association with end stage renal disease (esrd). diabetes mellitus (dm) is the most commonly esrd causes. diabetic nephropathy (dn) could be associated with inflammation. type 2 diabetic patients with advanced nephropathy show the highest levels of inflammatory markers. this study was designed to determine the associa...

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...

endothelial dysfunction and carotid intima-media thickness are 2 indicators of subclinical cardiovascular disease. the aim of study was to analyze brachial flow mediated dilation(fmd)and carotid intima media thickness (cimt)in patients with coronary artery disease, and investigate the relationship between endothelial function, cimt and coronary artery disease risk factors.56 men and women aged ...

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...

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...