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Carotid Stenosis

 
 
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Disease relevance of Carotid Stenosis

 

High impact information on Carotid Stenosis

  • CONCLUSION: Severe carotid stenosis is associated with a higher risk for cerebrovascular events, but the power of repeated ultrasonography to predict ischemic events is limited by low incidence rates and low rates of progression [6].
  • CONCLUSION: Aspirin did not have a significant long-term protective effect in asymptomatic patients with high-grade (> or = 50%) carotid stenosis [7].
  • Homocysteine levels were performed on fasting blood samples that had been stored at -70 degrees C. Atherosclerosis was defined as either a history of clinical disease, an internal carotid stenosis of > or = 40% by duplex scan, or an ankle/arm pressure ratio of < 0 [8].
  • Estrogen users also had lower levels of subclinical disease as measured by carotid intimal-medial thickness, carotid stenosis grade, ECG left ventricular mass, and Doppler mitral peak flow velocities (each P < .02) [9].
  • METHODS: Retrospective review of 175 cervical carotid stenoses treated with elective CAS from April 2001 to February 2005 [10].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Carotid Stenosis

  • Carotid stenosis was not usefully predictive of stroke in patients with AF who were given aspirin or warfarin [11].
  • METHODS: We measured the maximum percentage reduction in luminal diameter on the intra-arterial digital subtraction angiograms of 56 symptomatic patients with extracranial internal carotid stenosis (n = 77) or occlusion (n = 20) [12].
  • Ticlopidine was more effective in patients without carotid stenosis [13].
  • To identify metabolic and other concomitants of a single important type of atherosclerotic cerebrovascular disease, 75 patients with angiographically and surgically proven internal carotid stenosis were compared with age and sex matched control subjects with respect to plasma cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose [14].
  • In patients with carotid stenosis, hydralazine increased, whereas propranolol reduced, the occurrence of abnormal high-velocity flow patterns associated with turbulence and vortex formation [15].
 

Biological context of Carotid Stenosis

 

Anatomical context of Carotid Stenosis

  • RESULTS: Cerebral vasomotor reactivity was estimated as good (> 40% increase of blood flow velocity in the middle cerebral artery ipsilateral to the carotid stenosis after undergoing the Diamox test) in 23 patients; it was impaired in the other 21 [21].
  • Significant differences in ophthalmic artery pressures as measured by oculopneumoplethysmography (OPPG), and significant delays in ocular pulse arrival time combined with characteristic recorded bruits as determined by oculoplethysmography/carotid phonoangiography (OPG/CPA) were considered as an index of carotid stenosis [22].
  • We evaluated the hemodynamic features of the posterior circulation in patients with severe carotid stenosis by assessing and comparing cerebral vasomotor reactivity (VMR) in the middle cerebral (MCA) and vertebral arteries (VA) by transcranial Doppler and the Diamox (1 g acetazolamide i.v.) test [23].
 

Gene context of Carotid Stenosis

  • In asymptomatic patients and in patients with a contralateral carotid stenosis of >50%, however, the observed reduction of VEGF did not reach statistical significance [24].
  • CONCLUSIONS: CCR5 Delta 32 deletion mutation is significantly more frequent in patients with AAA than in control subjects and in both patients with PAOD and carotid stenosis, and could be a factor that differentiates AAA from PAOD, and ruptured AAAs from AAAs that can be electively repaired [25].
  • However, it is not clear whether the circulating levels of IL-8 and VEGF correlate with the extents of carotid stenosis [26].
  • CONCLUSIONS: Homozygosity for the 6A allele of the MMP-3 promoter is associated with carotid stenosis and, in association with MMP-1 2G homozygosity, predicts an increased risk of ICA stenosis [27].
  • In conclusion, transplanted patients with atheromatous plaques, calcification, and carotid stenosis have a greater degree of hypercholesterolemia and lower antioxidant activity (lower GPx) [28].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Carotid Stenosis

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