ELKO — Life Line Screening will hold stroke and heart disease screenings at First Presbyterian Church of Elko on March 1. The company said appointments must be reserved ahead of time at 800-772-8243.

February is heart month, a time to think about the health of your and your loved ones’ arteries. If arteries get stressed by ...

Compared with IMT, measurement of carotid plaque volume by three-dimensional ultrasound reduces by two orders of magnitude the sample size and duration of treatment needed to evaluate new therapies.

Introduction: Nonstenotic carotid plaque is found in some patients with otherwise cryptogenic stroke (CS) but also in normal individuals and patients with stroke of known cause (KS). Clinical ...

We examined the relation between plaque cross-sectional area and length ... carotid artery stenting, or carotid endarterectomy (CEA), (2) absence of ultrasound scans, or (3) bilateral stroke. In ...

Residents aged 18 years or older in the sampled areas were included in this study, and data were collected through questionnaires, physical examinations, laboratory tests, carotid ultrasound ...

Nevertheless, carotid IMT only measures one wall of the artery, whereas intravascular ultrasound (IVUS ... and the change in characteristics of the plaque without effects on its volume might ...

When Doppler ultrasound indicated severe stenosis of the carotid or ... such as thickening of the intima-media complex and non-significant carotid plaques, and brings into focus the possibility of ...

Whether the data on carotid plaque burden will add more information to the current ... Methods such as intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography as well as the near-infrared ...

From 264 carotid arteries, 177 plaques (68.9% male individuals ... stenosis degree >30% or mostly because of missing CT and MRI examination together because ultrasound was the first-line imaging ...

If ultrasound examination was not feasible at 24 hours, CT angiography of the carotids was performed along with the 24-hour CT examination. The primary study outcome was the rate of carotid stent ...