Carotid Plaques
Shear wave elastography imaging of carotid plaques: feasible, reproducible and of clinical potential
... of carotid plaques was successful in 52 out of 54 plaques giving an excellent technical sucess rate of ...the carotid arteries and the restricted temporal resolution of the commercial ...
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Echomorphologic and Histopathologic Characteristics of Unstable Carotid Plaques
... Each plaque was treated as an independent case (unit of the study) and defined the side of interest on each patient. Sixty- three patients presented with unilateral and four patients with bilateral carotid ...
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Reproductive factors, intima media thickness and carotid plaques in a cross-sectional study of postmenopausal women enrolled in the population-based KORA F4 study
... Basic characteristics of the study population were ana- lyzed for the whole sample and stratified for carotid plaques. For normally distributed variables the mean and standard deviation and for categorical ...
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Effects of exercise training on carotid intima-media thickness in patients with type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease. Influence of carotid plaques
... of carotid plaques, there were no differences in changes of the risk factors, except for LDL cholesterol levels which increased in the exercise group compared to controls in patients with plaques ...
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Hepatic steatosis, carotid plaques and achieving MDA in psoriatic arthritis patients starting TNF α blockers treatment: a prospective study
... common carotid artery; CPs: carotid plaques; CRP: C-reactive protein; CV: cardiovascular; DMARDs: disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs; ESR: erythrocyte sedimentation rate; HAQ: health assessment ...
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Regression of Carotid Plaques in Individuals at Low-to-intermediate Cardiovascular Risk Treated with Citozym and Propulzym
... that carotid plaque morphology/stability is one of the most important factors regarding the definition of cardiovascular risk ...in carotid plaques in patients with an initial stenosis between 40% ...
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Extracellular matrix proteomics identifies molecular signature of symptomatic carotid plaques
... atherosclerotic plaques from symptomatic and asymptomatic patients and to predict the development of advanced atherosclerosis and cardiovascular events in the general ...
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Significance of Sonographic Tissue and Surface Characteristics of Carotid Plaques
... of Carotid Plaques Method.—The carotid plaques were scanned on the ATL HDI 3000 scanner with a 7-MHz linear probe in the longitu- dinal, anterolateral projection at a minimal depth, then their ...
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Performance analysis of transformation techniques with prediction algorithms on diagnosing carotid plaques
... as carotid plaques are the potential indicators of the CVDs like ...of carotid plaque ominously, but, this paper attempts to put a light on the performance indications of different prediction ...
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Original Article Identifying the characters of carotid plaques by gemstone spectral imaging and pathologic correlation
... the carotid plaques in patients with carotid atherosclerosis (CAS) by gemstone spectral imaging ...with carotid endarterectomy (CEA), as the control group (group B). The plaques of the ...
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Window Settings for the Study of Calcified Carotid Plaques with Multidetector CT Angiography
... presence of calcified plaques was correctly interpreted with DSA in only 56% of patients. Moreover, DSA was associated with a significant periprocedural morbidity risk of 0.5%– 4%. CTA has a high sensitivity in ...
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An assessment of the vulnerability of carotid plaques: a comparative study between intraplaque neovascularization and plaque echogenicity
... echolucent plaques tend to have greater contrast enhancement com- pared to echogenic ...Echolucent plaques are known to exhibit a larger number of vulnerable patho- logical features and correlate with a ...
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Original Article Lack of an independent relationship between CXCL16 gene rs2277680 polymorphism and instability of carotid plaque in the Chinese Han population
... of carotid plaques, patients who had plaques with echo- lucent or mixed echo characteristics were clas- sified into the vulnerable plaque group (n = 129; age range: 48 to 87 years, with an aver- age ...
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Therapeutic Effects of Targeted PPARɣ Activation on Inflamed High-Risk Plaques Assessed by Serial Optical Imaging In Vivo
... murine carotid plaques and macrophages in ...the carotid artery using a 5-axis staging platform. To visualize carotid angiogram and plaque macrophage distribution simultaneously, 488 nm and ...
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Comparison of carotid plaque tissue characteristics in patients with acute coronary syndrome or stable angina pectoris: assessment by iPlaque, transcutaneous carotid ultrasonography with integrated backscatter analysis
... and carotid ultrasonography in our department from January 2010 to June 2014, pa- tients with suitable carotid plaques for iPlaque analysis were enrolled in this ...internal carotid ar- tery, ...
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Sonographic Characterization of Carotid Plaque: Detection of Hemorrhage
... By careful evaluation of the sonographic characteristics of carotid plaques, two patterns can be identified: 1 a homogeneous pattern containing uniform echoes corresponding to dense fibr[r] ...
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Visualization of Internal Carotid Artery Atherosclerotic Plaques in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Patients: A Comparison of Optical Coherence Tomography and Intravascular Ultrasound
... defined carotid plaques as “symptom- atic” if they were associated with transient ischemic attack or cerebral infarction within the past 180 ...days. Plaques were defined as “asymp- tomatic” if they ...
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Plasma Lipoprotein-associated Phospholipase A2 in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome and Carotid Atherosclerosis
... of plaques, carotid atherosclerotic plaques was identified in 39 patients, and no stenosis or occlusion was ...without carotid plaques, moreover, with significant difference between two ...
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Association between carotid plaque characteristics and acute cerebral infarction determined by MRI in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
... of carotid plaque characteristics with ACI lesions confined to the carotid territory in patients with and without ...with carotid LRNC plaques had concomitant more large PAI and less small PAI ...
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Original Article Intervention study of combination therapy using tongxinluo and atorvastatin with brain ultrasounds on carotid vulnerable plaque
... unstable plaques may contribute to cardiovascular events in hypertensive patients ...of carotid atherosclerotic plaque ...by carotid artery disease. Carotid atherosclerotic plaques are ...
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