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 …

The aim of this review is to present the current knowledge regarding stroke. It will appear in
three parts (in part II the pathogenesis, investigations, and prognosis will be presented, while …

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, …

Importance TheAPOEε2 andAPOEε4 alleles are the strongest protective and risk-increasing,
respectively, genetic variants for late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD). However, the …

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 …

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 …

Objective. The echogenicity of the carotid atheromatous plaque estimated from B‐mode
sonographic images may be related to plaque content and has been analyzed with a number of …