OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that the size of a juxtaluminal black (hypoechoic) area (JBA)
in ultrasound images of asymptomatic carotid artery plaques predicts future ipsilateral …

Atherosclerosis constitutes the most common medical and surgical problem. This can be
mani fested clinically as stroke, coronary artery disease, or peripheral vascular disease. In the …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Our hypothesis was that the carotid plaques associated
with retinal and cerebrovascular symptomatology and asymptomatic presentation may be …

Purpose: In patients with carotid bifurcation disease, the risk of stroke mainly depends on the
severity of the stenosis, the presenting hemispheric symptom, and, as recently suggested, …

Hypoechoic carotid atherosclerotic plaques on ultrasonographic examination were found to
be associated with cerebrovascular events. This underlines the need for an accurate …

Purpose: It was suggested that in the absence of cardioembolism the discrete subcortical
and cortical infarctions on brain computed tomography (CT) are most likely associated with …

Purpose: This study identified in patients with carotid plaques the associations of emboli
detected by means of transcranial Doppler (TCD) with cerebrovascular symptoms, brain …

We estimated the value of objective, computerized texture analysis of ultrasonic images in
distinguishing carotid plaques associated with neurological ipsilateral symptoms (amaurosis …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Our hypothesis was that symptomatic and asymptomatic
carotid plaques are different. The aim of this study was to identify the sonographic tissue and …

Purpose: A new intermittent pneumatic compression device (SCD Response System) has
recently been shown in healthy volunteers to have the ability to detect the postcompression …