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... history, current use of lipid-lowering medications, total cholesterol level ≥ ...heart disease (defined as a history of myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, and congestive heart failure), smoking ... See full document

... coronary artery disease (CAD) [11], peripheral vascular disease, carotid intimal-medial thickness, stroke, non- alcoholic fatty liver and metabolic syndrome ...of carotid artery ... See full document

... of stenosis was analyzed by AVA ...of stenosis defined by NASCET criteria [19], the patients were categorized into two groups: CCAS, with 50-100% diameter stenosis in cervi- co-cerebral arteries and ... See full document

... be associated with atherosclerosis of the extracranial in- ternal carotid artery, and hypertension may play a role in the development of middle cerebral artery occlusion in Japanese ... See full document

... GCA is the most common vasculitis in persons over age 50. There is an observed 2- to 3-fold female-to-male pre- dilection and annual incidence increases with age, affecting 1 in 5,000 adults in their 9th decade. 4 This ... See full document

... PSA. Absence of the foramen spinosum and enlargement of the proximal tympanic facial nerve canal may indicate the presence of a PSA (Fig 8A ⫺ C). The stapedial artery is normally present in the fetus but undergoes ... See full document

... When the distal ICA appears to be extensively narrow based on the angiographic findings, the fol- lowing possibilities exist: 1) the vessel lumen is actu- ally narrow over long distances by atherosclerosis or other ... See full document

... internal carotid artery aneurysms in the mid and distal C1 segments, respectively, and a ...internal carotid artery ...internal carotid artery at the aneurysm level with no ... See full document

... Patients above the age of 65 years were excluded from our study in order to focus on the role (if any) that APA might have in the pathogenesis of stroke in young and middle-aged patients and lower the likeli- hood that ... See full document

... skin petechiae or light subcutaneous bleeding at the cuff contact site or the ischemic forearm; these adverse events do not seem to cause any harmful impacts and disappear within one or two weeks. Several studies have ... See full document

... nial atherosclerotic carotid artery occlusion is rare, its natural course is not well ...arterial stenosis after recanalization remains ...Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial ... See full document

... luminal stenosis and could not provide high quality images for evaluating the morphology of athero- sclerotic arterial wall ...evaluating intracranial vessel wall, which can give information about ... See full document

... internal carotid artery, when the occlusion segment does not exceed the ophthalmic ...thrombus carotid artery occlusion treated by balloon surgery is relatively ...common carotid ... See full document

... Seven patients had proximal common carotid artery stenosis, three had distal common carotid artery stenosiS, four had stenosis at the carotid bifurcation , six had internal carotid arter[r] ... See full document

... one patient with a traumatic pseudoaneurysm, and one large fusiform cervical carotid aneurysm reaching the skull base. In one patient, a high‑flow bypass was performed before radical resection of a ... See full document

... The stenosis measurements for both techniques were obtained in either the cavernous or supraclinoid segments of the ...measurable stenosis, linear measurements were made in the normal-caliber cavernous ... See full document

... had large infarcts of more than 30 mm in diam- eter in the internal carotid artery ...after extracranial-intracranial bypass surgery were ... See full document

... Forty-five consecutive patients who underwent ECIC bypass proce- dure (ie, anastomosis of the STA and MCA) for internal carotid artery occlusion in our institution from May 2001 to November 2006 were ... See full document

... normal artery at its widest, nontortuous, normal ...of stenosis measurements, we used a combination of MIP and axial MRA source images and multipla- nar reformations and axial ...of stenosis was ... See full document

... A technique for safe angioplasty of atherosclerotic stenosis of internal and common carotid arteries is described in which temporary balloon occlusion of the internal carotid artery is u[r] ... See full document