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Atherosclerotic carotid plaque segmentation [PDF]

The 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005
Atherosclerosis is the major cause of heart attack and stroke in the western world. In this paper we present a computerized method for segmenting the athrerosclerotic carotid plaque from ultrasound images. The method uses the blood flow image first to detect the initial contour of the plaque, and then despeckle filtering and snakes to deform the ...
Loizou, Christos P., Pattichis, Constantinos S., Istepanian, Robert S H, Pantziaris, Marios, Nicolaides, Andrew N.   +4 more
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Imaging atherosclerotic plaque inflammation [PDF]

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine, 2008
Inflammation within atherosclerotic plaques is one of the main drivers of atherosclerotic plaque rupture, which frequently leads to clinical events such as myocardial infarction and stroke. Current gold standard techniques such as X-ray angiography and ultrasound can rapidly report on luminal encroachment but give no readout on inflammatory state of ...
James H F, Rudd, Zahi A, Fayad
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Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque [PDF]

Circulation, 2003
The recent proliferation of invasive and noninvasive techniques to locate vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques raises important questions. Will such techniques add useful prognostic information? If so, will the information prevent myocardial infarction, stroke, or death in at least some patients at risk? Will it lead to new research advances?
Ward, Casscells, Morteza, Naghavi, James T, Willerson   +2 more
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Characteristics and evaluation of atherosclerotic plaques: an overview of state-of-the-art techniques

Frontiers in Neurology, 2023
Atherosclerosis is an important cause of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Lipid infiltration, inflammation, and altered vascular stress are the critical mechanisms that cause atherosclerotic plaque formation.
Zhiwei He, Jiaying Luo, Mengna Lv, Qingwen Li, Wei Ke, Xuan Niu, Zhaohui Zhang   +6 more
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Genetic susceptibility loci for cardiovascular disease and their impact on atherosclerotic plaques [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease in part caused by lipid uptake in the vascular wall, but the exact underlying mechanisms leading to acute myocardial infarction and stroke remain poorly understood. Large consortia identified
Asselbergs, Folkert W, Björkegrenn, Johan L.M, de Bakker, Paul I.W, de Borst, Gert J., den Ruijter, Folkert W, Dichgans, Martin, Erdmann, Jeanette, Ford, Ian, Foroughi Asl, Hassan, Haitjema, Saskia, Hedin, Ulf, Malik, Rainer, Mokry, Michal, Pasterkamp, Gerard, Paulsson-Berne, Gabrielle, Perisic, Ljubica, Samani, Nilesh J, Sattar, Naveed, Schunkert, Heribert, Siemelink, Marten A., Stott, David J., van der Laan, Sander W., van Setten, Jessica, Worrall, Bradford B   +23 more
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Atherosclerosis and Atheroma Plaque Rupture: Imaging Modalities in the Visualization of Vasa Vasorum and Atherosclerotic Plaques

The Scientific World Journal, 2014
Invasive angiography has been widely accepted as the gold standard to diagnose cardiovascular pathologies. Despite its superior resolution of demonstrating atherosclerotic plaque in terms of degree of lumen stenosis, the morphological assessment for the ...
Zhonghua Sun
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Oral glucose tolerance test predicts increased carotid plaque burden in patients with acute coronary syndrome. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes are established risk factors for atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the atherosclerotic plaque burden in the carotid arteries of patients with acute coronary syndrome according to their glycemic status ...
Thorarinn A Bjarnason, Steinar O Hafthorsson, Linda B Kristinsdottir, Erna S Oskarsdottir, Thor Aspelund, Sigurdur Sigurdsson, Vilmundur Gudnason, Karl Andersen   +7 more
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Orthopedic surgery increases atherosclerotic lesions and necrotic core area in ApoE-/- mice [PDF]

, 2016
Background and aims Observational studies show a peak incidence of cardiovascular events after major surgery. For example, the risk of myocardial infarction increases 25-fold early after hip replacement.
Chen, Cohen, Corrales-Medina, Dutta, Dutta, Gualandro, Hans W.M. Niessen, Hanson, Ilse P.A. Zethof, Janssen, Kaynar, King, Kleemann, Lalmohamed, Landesberg, Lars F.H. Theyse, Libby, Martine C. Morrison, Moore, Morrison, Naghavi, Paul A.J. Krijnen, Reid, Rianne van der Linden, Robert Kleemann, Santos-Gallego, Santos-Gallego, Santos-Gallego, Seimon, Smeeth, Tan, Thompson, Thompson, Van der Donckt, van Dijk, Virmani, Virmani, Wessel W. Fuijkschot, Yvo M. Smulders, Zhang   +39 more
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A New Approach in Risk Stratification by Coronary CT Angiography. [PDF]

, 2014
For a decade, coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) has been used as a promising noninvasive modality for the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) as well as cardiovascular risks.
Budoff, Matthew J, Nakanishi, Rine
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High-Resolution MRI of Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease [PDF]

Neurointervention, 2014
Intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD) causes up to 10% of all ischemic strokes, and the rate of recurrent vascular ischemic events is very high. Important predictors of vulnerability in atherosclerotic plaques include the degree of stenosis and the
Chang-Woo Ryu, Hyo-Sung Kwak, Geon-Ho Jahng, Han Na Lee   +3 more
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