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ABSTRACT Introduction Erythropoiesis‐stimulating agents (ESAs) and iron supplementation are standard treatments for chronic kidney disease (CKD)–related anemia. Targeting higher hemoglobin values in CKD increases cardiovascular risk. Whether the increased risk is from higher ESA doses or higher hemoglobin levels is uncertain, but alternative therapies ...
Alan Jardine +9 more
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Focused High Risk – Population Screening for Carotid Stenosis and Retinal Microangiopathia after Radiotherapy for Laryngeal Carcinoma [PDF]
Carotid artery stenosis (CAS) is one of the major complications of external irradiation (radiotherapy, RT) for laryngeal carcinoma. Considering amaurosis fugax is often one of the first signs of significant CAS our focus was to determine weather patients
Božo Vojniković +2 more
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Recovery from repeated sudden hearing loss in a patient with Takayasu’s arteritis treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy: the first report in the literature [PDF]
Hearing loss has been rarely reported in Takayasu's arteritis, presents as sudden sensorineural hearing loss and usually responds well to corticosteroid therapy.
ALTISSIMI, Giancarlo +8 more
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We report a 36‐year‐old healthy woman with 2 days of right‐sided blurry vision, headache, and pain with eye movement. Exam showed decreased visual acuity, focal retinal pallor, and abnormal cranial nerve II findings. CTA revealed right vertebral artery dissection at C5–C6 with concurrent ophthalmic artery narrowing.
Jaime Said +4 more
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Medical Management of Cerebral Vascular Disease [PDF]
The judicious mixture of surgical therapy and prophylactic therapy with a safe platelet antiaggregant appears at this time to be the best combination of approaches to the axiom: The best time to treat a stroke is before it ...
Hass, William K.
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Markers of Giant Cell Arteritis in Patients Presenting With Ischemic Stroke: A Scoping Review
Giant cell arteritis should be considered in patients aged ≥ 50 years presenting with vertebrobasilar ischemic events, multifocal infarcts affecting both vertebrobasilar and carotid territories, or recurrent ischemic events despite optimal secondary prevention.
Alain‐Mauricio Vergara +5 more
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Carotid plaque hemorrhage on magnetic resonance imaging strongly predicts recurrent ischemia and stroke [PDF]
Objective There is a recognized need to improve selection of patients with carotid artery stenosis for carotid endarterectomy (CEA). We assessed the value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-defined carotid plaque hemorrhage (MRIPH) to predict recurrent
Altaf, Nishath +4 more
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ABSTRACT Behçet's disease is a systemic inflammatory disorder with an incompletely understood pathophysiology. Its clinical manifestations are highly diverse, affecting multiple organs throughout the body. In some cases, Behçet's disease presents with large arterial involvement, as aneurysms, which resulted from perivascular and endovascular ...
Mohammad Ali Nazarinia +5 more
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Common carotid artery occlusion presenting with recurrent syncopal episodes
Symptomatic common carotid artery (CCA) occlusion is an uncommon occurrence that may require surgical intervention. We aim to describe a case of CCA occlusion that presented with the unusual symptom of recurrent syncope. A 69-year-old lady presented with
Imran Kader +4 more
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Managment of Transient Brain Ischemia [PDF]
Cerebrovascular disease is an exciting subject, so complex that we could devote 30 minutes to a discussion of aspirin, dipyridamole, and sulfinpyrazone and their potential actions in the prevention of thromboembolic events.
Millikan, Clark H.
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