Other tests when cervical cancer is diagnosed If a biopsy shows that cancer cells are present, your doctor may order certain tests to see if and how far the cancer has spread. Many of the tests ...

Objective Low association between cardiac symptoms and coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with inflammatory joint diseases (IJD) demands for objective markers to improve cardiovascular risk ...

Quantitative determination of carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) by high-resolution B-mode ultrasound has been shown to be strongly correlated with traditional cardiovascular risk factors and is an ...

Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MD Renal ultrasound (kidney ultrasound) is a safe, noninvasive imaging test that uses sound waves to create images of your kidneys and bladder. It helps healthcare ...

Stroke is a serious health problem in many countries. About 20% of ischemia stroke involves carotid stenosis. Neck carotid ultrasound is fast, secure and convenient way to detect carotid artery ...

Higher carotid and lower limb scores derived from ultrasound imaging may indicate a greater burden of atherosclerosis and thus a higher likelihood of CHD. In clinical practice, patients with moderate ...

Objectives Elevated serum urate (SU) levels are associated with arterial atherosclerosis and subsequent cardiovascular events. However, an optimal therapeutic target SU level for delaying ...

Summary form only given. This paper introduces a novel segmentation scheme for carotid artery ultrasound images. The proposed scheme is based on watershed segmentation algorithm. It consists of four ...

Both sides of your neck will be looked at. Once the test is done, the technologist will wipe off the gel. The carotid artery duplex scan is not painful. But you may have some discomfort from lying ...

Selective prodrug activation at tumor sites through noninvasive external stimuli represents a promising strategy in enhancing the therapeutic index. Here, we report a p-azidobenzyloxycarbonyl ...