In community-based studies in the United States and France, the annual incidence of spontaneous carotid-artery dissection ranged from 2.5 per 100,000 to 3 per 100,000. 4,5 Given the relative ...

Increased Risk of Carotid Artery Wall Thickening in COPD Intracranial atherosclerosis predicts, and may significantly increase the risk of, stroke in the general white population. Daniel Bos, MD ...

Asymptomatic intracranial stenosis was twice as prevalent as asymptomatic carotid stenosis (14.8% vs 7.2%, RR 2.04, 95% CI 1.63-2.55), reported Peter Rothwell, MD, PhD, of John Radcliffe Hospital ...

Intracranial Disease: Cerebral Angiogram, right internal carotid artery (ICA) injection. Note the ... American and Asian descent, compared with Caucasians in whom atherosclerosis is often more ...

MRA of the Aortic Arch with Contrast Bolus. This study is complementary to the standard neck and intracranial MRA. It allows visualization of the common carotids, and especially the origin of the ...

Patients requiring revascularization for carotid stenosis are more likely to develop intracranial hemorrhage and other unfavorable outcomes with carotid artery stenting (CAS) than with carotid ...

"Most notably, larger intracranial carotid calcification load relates to larger [white-matter lesion] WML volumes, and larger extracranial carotid calcification load relates to the presence of ...

As for safety in the trial, sonolysis did not result in any intracranial bleeds. Approximately 95% of patients in the sonolysis group were free from serious adverse events 30 days after the ...