Intracranial Atherosclerosis
Is Intracranial Atherosclerosis an Independent Risk Factor for Cerebral Atrophy? A Retrospective Evaluation
... There is an agreement in the literature for existence of cor- tical and central atrophy subtypes in the supratentorial brain. Different quantitative analysis indices have been developed and utilized for these atrophy ...
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Intracranial Atherosclerosis: The Natural History and Management Strategies
... in intracranial atherosclerosis, a total of 14% of patients demonstrated lesion ...Symptomatic Intracranial Disease) [5], where patients recruited in the trial, though symptomatic, also had ...
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The population-based Barcelona-Asymptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerosis Study (ASIA): rationale and design
... cranial atherosclerosis is still an understudied ...evaluated intracranial stenosis only with transcranial Doppler, they did not use contrast agents and some of them only eval- uated middle cerebral ...
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Clinical, lifestyle, socioeconomic determinants and rate of asymptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis in stroke free Pakistanis
... ICAD: Intracranial Atherosclerotic disease; AKU: Aga Khan University; DUHS: Dow University of Health Sciences; MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; TIA: Transient ischemic attack; QVSFS: Questionnaire to Verify ...
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Prevalence of Cerebral Atherosclerosis among Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: A Case Control Study on Egyptian Subjects
... the intracranial vasculature, the current study demonstrates that MetS had no significant effect on the presence of intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD), the degree of intracranial stenosis or ...
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Intracranial Angioplasty & Stenting for Cerebral Atherosclerosis: A Position Statement of the American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, Society of Interventional Radiology, and the American Society of Neuroradiology
... for intracranial atherosclerosis is confirmed in the report by Wojak et al ...with intracranial stenoses (all ⬎ 70%) who had 67 symptomatic lesions and 4 additional asymptomatic lesions (for a total ...
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Current smoking is associated with extracranial carotid atherosclerotic stenosis but not with intracranial large artery disease
... Chinese intracranial atherosclerosis (CICAS) study; COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CRF: Case Report Form; CT: Computerized tomography; DBP: Diastolic blood pressure; DSA: Digital subtract ...
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Preliminary results of intracranial angioplasty for vascular stenosis caused by atherosclerosis and vasculitis
... from intracranial atherosclerosis and ...and intracranial lesions were dilated with a microballoon angioplasty ...CONCLUSION: Intracranial percutaneous transluminal angio- plasty is a viable ...
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Original Article Decrease in circulating myeloid dendritic cell precursors in patients with intracranial large artery atherosclerosis
... for intracranial atherosclerosis related stroke than extracranial atherosclerosis or non- atherosclerosis in a multi-ethnic community- based cohort [37] Diabetes mellitus was also considered ...
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Clinical practice guidelines of remote ischemic conditioning for the management of cerebrovascular diseases
... stroke, intracranial atherosclerosis, cerebral small vessel disease, and carotid artery stenosis patients treated with ...with intracranial hemorrhage, only the aneurysm subarachnoid hemorrhage ...
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Association of Aortic Knob Calcification with Intracranial Stenosis in Ischemic Stroke Patients in Tertiary Care Centre
... asymptomatic atherosclerosis so as to prevent Cerebrovascular events and also improve the subject outcome; still larger studies are needed in this area as it is first study in our population, to become it ...
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Assessment of intracranial pressure with ultrasonographic retrobulbar optic nerve sheath diameter measurement
... Intracranial hypertension is a critical life-threatening condition caused by a variety of neurological and non- neurological diseases. It is also a sign of poor prognosis including risk of death from brainstem ...
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Mclk1+/- mice are not resistant to the development of atherosclerosis
... on atherosclerosis in one particular genetic background, suggesting that it was due to a unique set of interactions within this particular ...on atherosclerosis would not be due to the same mechanism as ...
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Intracranial Pressure - Basic Concepts and Management
... There is substantial evidence both clinically (Bergland, 1975; Meing, 1976) and in experimental animals (James, 1978; Baethmann, 1975, Clasen, 1974) that furosemide reduces increased intracranial pressure. James ...
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Risk of intracranial hemorrhage associated with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in patients with end stage renal disease
... to intracranial aneurysm rupture, but may be coded as hemorrhagic CVA due to ap- pearance on conventional ...for intracranial aneurysms than patients with other causes of ...
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Simulation of propofol anaesthesia for intracranial decompression using brain hypothermia treatment
... of intracranial hypertension is considered to be the patient in this theoretical ...the intracranial decompression is simulated in the proposed and empirical ...
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Delineation of two intracranial areas and the perpendicular intracranial width is sufficient for intracranial volume estimation
... Estimates of intracranial volume (ICV) in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging are mainly used to reduce variance in regional brain volumes of interest. To reduce variance caused by dif- ferences in ICV, linear ...
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Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, hormones, and 11ß-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases
... Abstract: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) results in raised intracranial pressure (ICP) leading to papilledema, visual dysfunction, and headaches. Obese females of reproductive age are ...
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Automated Quantitation of Spinal CSF Volume and Measurement of Craniospinal CSF Redistribution following Lumbar Withdrawal in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
... Before spinal canal CSF segmentation, T2-weighted scans of the cranium and cervical-thoracic and thoracic-lumbar regions were merged on the basis of the patient coordinates. The CSF and cord segmentation was initialized ...
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Serum fibroblast growth factor 21 levels are related to subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes
... In this study, serum FGF21 was associated with carotid and iliac IMT in women but only iliac IMT in men. A previous study also showed gender-specific differences in the association between serum FGF21 and carotid IMT ...
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