carotid artery disease natural historyand diagnosis

... Echocardiogr 2003, 4:43–53 36 • Mädler CF, Payne N, Wilkenshoff U, et al.: Non-invasive diagnosis of coronary artery disease by quantitative stress echocardiography: optimal diagnostic models using ... strain rate are load dependent [5] this is not a major limitation in the assessment of coronary artery disease, since finding of regional differences is more important than absolute values Methodological ... is the most widely used TDI measure for quantifying regional function in suspected coronary artery disease Longitudinal velocity measurements are more reproducible than radial velocities, and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 11:20

... vertebral artery to the external carotid artery to anastomosis of the internal carotid artery; in one case, the subclavian artery to the common carotid artery to anastomosis of the internal 265 carotid ... hemorrhage; BA, basilar apex; VA, vertebral artery; ECA, external carotid artery; ICA, internal carotid artery; ICrA, intracranial artery; CCA, common carotid artery http://www.medsci.org Int J Med ... Common carotid artery DS angiographs: occlusion at the beginning of internal carotid artery, with the remaining external carotid artery No formation of anatomosis between the external carotid artery...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:04

... Abbreviations: Cx, left circumflex coronary artery; LAD, left anterior descending coronary artery; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; RCA, right coronary artery a Indicates patients who received ... Vascular, Santa Rosa, CA) for treating single de novo lesions in patients with symptomatic coronary artery disease has been examined in the first four trials of the ongoing ENDEAVOR clinical trials program ... reduces the rates of clinical and angiographic restenosis in patients with symptomatic coronary artery disease (CAD; 4) Also the safety and efficacy of Paclitaxel-eluting stent (PES; Taxus, Boston...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... Abbreviations: Cx, left circumflex coronary artery; LAD, left anterior descending coronary artery; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; RCA, right coronary artery a Indicates patients who received ... consecutive series of all patients who had undergone coronary stent implantation for coronary artery disease between February 2005 and March 2007; 103 of the patients received the SES (CYPHER; ... Natick, Massachusetts) Patients were eligible for enrollment if there was symptomatic coronary artery disease or positive functional testing, and angiographic evidence of a target lesion stenosis...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 08:57

... 7-like Table Summary of the important risk genes and disease pathways leading to the manifestation of coronary artery disease 14 Coronary Artery Disease – New Insights and Novel Approaches Familial ... acquired and inherited risk factors of this complex disease Genetics and drug therapy of coronary artery disease Treatment of coronary artery disease entails among others, lowering of circulating ... of atherothrombotic disease of coronary, cerebral and other vessels in diabetes The disease has emerged as an important condition of older patients in 10 Coronary Artery Disease – New Insights...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20

... Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease Chapter Epidemiology of Coronary Artery Disease John F Beltrame, Rachel Dreyer and Rosanna Tavella Chapter Gender Differences in Coronary Artery Disease 31 Ryotaro ... = Cardiovascular Disease Table The Epidemiologic Transition of Cardiovascular Disease# 1.4 Health status in coronary artery disease Epidemiology not only involves monitoring diseases within the ... from Coronary Artery Disease 257 Billy Huh Preface Cardiovascular disease is ranked as the leading cause of death world wide According to the World Heart Federation, cardiovascular disease is responsible...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... Exclusion criteria were type diabetes, immunologic or malignant disease, hepatic or kidney disease, heart failure NYHA class III-IV, heart valve disease, thoracal epidural anaesthesia or treatment with ... http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/7/1/42 Effects of platelet inhibiting treatment in coronary artery disease When investigating possible effects of platelet-inhibiting treatment with Repeated Measures ... was significant ***p < 0.001, ns = not significant Comparisons between patients with coronary artery disease and controls The factors were further analysed by One-sample t-test for differences...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... with coronary artery disease (CAD) and refractory or recurrent retrosternal symptoms have a reduction in life expectancy and HRQL compared to patients with stable coronary artery disease [4-7] ... with or without omeprazole in coronary artery disease N Engl J Med 2010, 363:1909-17 43 Juurlink DN: Clopidogrel with or without omeprazole in coronary disease N Engl J Med 2011, 364:681-2 44 ... http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/77 measured using both disease- specific surveys and generic instruments, has been shown in patients without cardiovascular diseases but with upper and lower gastrointestinal...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... atherosclerosis What about cardiovascular disease? The immunomodulatory effects of statins in various autoimmune diseases apply equally well to cardiovascular disease, in which surprisingly similar ... autoimmune disease J Exp Med 2004;199:1121-31 Nissen SE, Tuzcu EM, Schoenhagen P, et al Effects of statin therapy on LDL cholesterol, C-reactive protein, and the progression of coronary artery disease ... both biomarkers that were less than the median (P=0.001) conclusions For patients with coronary artery disease, the reduced rate of progression of atherosclerosis associated with intensive statin...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... with vascular disease who not have overt heart failure reduces the risk of major atherosclerotic events In HOPE, high-risk patients with vascular disease (including coronary artery disease) or ... coronary artery disease who had a better prognosis than those in HOPE In the third trial (the PEACE Trial, the subject of the current report), 8290 patients with stable coronary artery disease ... Coronary disease on angiography 61 61 Angina pectoris 70 71 Percutaneous coronary intervention 42 41 Coronary -artery bypass grafting 38 40 Percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary-artery...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... excessive deaths from CV disease [21-25] RA is a heterogeneous disease, and the disease phenotype itself is predictive of mortality; patients with more severe clinical disease have higher mortality ... study Inclusion criteria were: diagnosis of RA according to the 1987 American College of Rheumatology criteria [31]; diagnosis of ischemic heart disease (ischemic heart disease criteria were anginal ... of diseased vessels, n (%) CAD, coronary artery disease; RA, rheumatoid arthritis duration was 17.6 years Approximately 90% of the cases were rheumatoid factor-positive and 53% had nodular disease...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23

... Kitabatake A: Relationships between brachial artery flow mediated dilation and carotid artery intima-media thickness in patients with suspected coronary artery disease Jpn Heart J 2002, 43:117–125 Haraki ... Society of Echocardiography Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Task Force: Use of carotid ultrasound to identify subclinical vascular disease and evaluate cardiovascular disease risk: A consensus statement ... such measures include carotid intimal medial thickness (IMT), brachial artery flow-mediated vasodilation (FMD) and plaque area [10,11] Carotid IMT is a measure of anatomic disease, used to identify...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... popularity in coronary artery surgery and has become a very strong alternative in the presence of diffuse LAD disease At our department, sequential LITA anastomosis for severe LAD disease was advocated ... severely diseased LAD, we primarily check whether the Page of diagonal artery to LAD connection is intact In cases where this connection is intact, simple revascularization of the diagonal artery ... extensive vein patch reconstruction and internal mammary artery grafting of the diffusely diseased left anterior descending coronary artery Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2002, 21:1020-5 Schmitto JD,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... four patients with diffuse coronary artery disease underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with adjunctive coronary endarterectomy (CE) of at least one artery in the Department of Thoracic-, ... combined with coronary artery bypass grafting Coronary Artery Disease 1995, 6:731-737 Gill IS, Beanlands DS, Boyd WD: Left Anterior Descending Endarterectomy and Internal Thoracic Artery Bypass for ... IV Discussion Coronary artery bypass grafting is a worldwide routine cardiac surgery procedure to revascularize ischemic myocardium of patients with severe coronary artery disease The operation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... MRI scan of his brain performed in the referring hospital revealed occlusion of his internal carotid artery on the left side with multiple vascular lesions in the left hemisphere and notable atrophy ... hyperintensities Revision of the MRI scan by our neuroradiologist revealed occlusion of the left internal carotid artery Usually, the onset of CBS is insidious This patient described an acute onset of symptoms, ... left frontoparietal lobe, with extensive gliosis (A, B, C; T2-weighted MRI) The left internal carotid artery is occluded, since there is no flow void (D; T1-weighted MRI) Engelen et al Journal...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

... the proximal internal carotid artery stenosis were removed surgically with excellent reconstruction of the proximal carotid artery lumen after six months communicating artery were widely patent ... Figure A) Digital subtracted angiography (DSA) of the right common carotid artery reveals a mid-grade proximal internal carotid artery stenosis B) In another institution two Wallstents were deployed ... considered equally safe and efficient methods for the treatment of proximal carotid artery stenoses However, carotid artery angiography and stenting requires proper training [4] In institutions...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:22

... Perindopril in stable coronary Artery disease Investigators: Efficacy of perindopril in reduction of cardiovascular events among patients with stable coronary artery disease: randomized, doubleblind, ... in patients with coronary disease, they can be easily modified and applied in other communities and for other target conditions Background and rationale Coronary artery disease (CAD) leads to substantial ... simvastatin the EURopean trial On Reduction of cardiac events with Perindopril in stable coronary Artery disease (EUROPA)[34] and the Simvastatin/Enalapril Coronary Atherosclerosis Trial (SCAT)[35]...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22