CAROTID PLAQUE IN COPD WITH AND WITHOUT
Vitamin D and Vulnerable Carotid Plaque
... 48 carotid plaques positive for IPH and 80 negative for IPH, 48/5 or ...model without overfitting, exceeding the number of variables in our final ...correlate carotid IPH with maximum plaque ...
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Histological composition and progression of carotid plaque
... analysis Carotid plaques were obtained immediately after endar- ...The plaque should be removed in bloc, without frag- mentation or significant ...of plaque for histological analysis was ...
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Carotid Hemodynamics and Atherosclerotic Plaque Composition
... calculating Haussdorff distances between the lumen segmentations in different imaging modalities. Theoretically, assuming idealized input and perfect regis- tration, the optimal registration accuracy that can be achieved ...
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Prospective study of hemoglobin A1c and incident carotid artery plaque in Chinese adults without diabetes
... In the current study, we observed that HbA1c level, not FBG concentration, was associated with future risk of CAP in about 17,000 Chinese adults without FBG- defined diabetes and free of cardiovascular disease, ...
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Association between carotid plaque and Parkinson’s disease
... However, in our study, there were no differences in IMT and plaque between the PD group and the control group. Even in the subgroups, there was no significant difference in the level of LDL-L and UA. These results ...
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Arterial stiffness and haemorrhage in the vulnerable carotid plaque
... 3.4.2 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Pulse Wave Velocity I. Protocol Carotid PWV was acquired using cine phase contrast (Cine-PC) (known as FastCine sequence in the GE Discovery MR750 ). It is a scan mode that uses ...
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Hemodynamics in the Stenosed Carotid Bifurcation with Plaque Ulceration
... stenosed carotid bifurcation induced substantial distal flow disturbances, using numerical simulation [58] and experimental slipstream visualization techniques [57], but only examined the effect of plaque ...
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Carotid plaque echogenicity, as assessed by B-mode
... factors, plaque thickness, and medication use were controlled for (Table ...of carotid plaques and enhanced levels of ...and carotid plaque echogenicity as assessed by B-mode ...and ...
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Intraplaque Hemorrhage and the Plaque Surface in Carotid Atherosclerosis: The Plaque At RISK Study (PARISK)
... atherosclerotic carotid artery plaque is an im- portant cause of ischemic ...of plaque rupture is very ...intra- plaque hemorrhage and subsequently the development of an un- stable ...
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Prediction of High-Risk Plaque Development and Plaque Progression With the Carotid Atherosclerosis Score
... and carotid atherosclerotic disease is a primary etiologic factor (1,2) ...with carotid atherosclerosis is stratified according to the severity of luminal stenosis (3) ...with carotid endarterectomy ...
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Type 2 diabetes-associated carotid plaque burden is increased in patients with retinopathy compared to those without retinopathy
... for carotid plaques, has been reported to be associated with traditional and newer risk factors for ...the carotid bulb or ICA, because high-level measurement precision is easily obtained from this ...those ...
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Predicting Carotid Plaque Characteristics Using Quantitative Color Coded T1 Weighted MR Plaque Imaging: Correlation with Carotid Endarterectomy Specimens
... preparation without decalcification, will be ...of plaque composition and fibrous cap thickness as well as the spatial correspondence between the MR and histologic images, high-field MR imaging scanners and ...
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Imaging of the ulcerated carotid atherosclerotic plaque: a review of the literature
... the carotid plaque surface can be performed with virtually all imaging modalities including ultrasound, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, multi-detector computed to- mography angiography, magnetic resonance ...
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Carotid Plaque Characteristics and Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis
... the carotid artery is unknown, we have shown, along with others 17 , that RA was associated with a high prevalence of CP in the carotid bulb-ICA region compared to the CCA ...
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Aterofisiol<sup>®</sup> in carotid plaque evolution
... Dovepress Aterofisiol ® and plaques of fibrin and extracellular matrix. 28 The anti-inflammatory role of resveratrol and omega-3 fatty acids, in combination with the effects of vitamin K 2 , B 6 , and B 12 , seems to ...
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Sex-related differences in carotid plaque features and inflammation
... of plaque thrombosis unrelated to the time of ...high-risk plaque morphology because it was out of the scope of the present histopathology ...for plaque characteristics of ...
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Carotid plaque fissure: An underestimated source of intraplaque hemorrhage
... identify plaque fissures in individuals at an earlier stage of disease in the broader ...the carotid artery have shown that IPH is associated with a more rapid plaque progression that appears to be ...
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Towards Non-invasive Ultrasonic Characterization of Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque
... imaging carotid plaque composition, it suffers from several ...non-invasive plaque assessment, there exists a need for a cheap, fast screening ...
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Computed tomography scan based prediction of the vulnerable carotid plaque
... vulnerable plaque due to its strong association to such [11], and the larger observer variation regarding the standard histological definition of vulnerable plaque ...vulnerable plaque as stable, but ...
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Carotid Plaque Morphology and Ischemic Vascular Brain Disease on MRI
... left/right carotid plaque and ipsilateral isch- emic brain disease, enabling us to investigate vascular brain dis- ease in the corresponding vascular ...each plaque component, which may have af- ...
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