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Idiopathic common carotid artery laceration: A case report

Clinical Case Reports, 2022
Carotid artery injury is a rare disease often caused by neck trauma or irradiation of head and neck cancer. It is not easy to diagnose quickly without these backgrounds.
Natsumi Suzuki, Mitsuhiko Katoh, Kento Koda, Masakazu Kuriyama, Gentaro Nagano, Kazuo Yasuhara   +5 more
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Evaluation of the Femoral Artery IMT as a Risk Factor of Cardiovascular Disease

Journal of Surgical Ultrasound, 2019
Purpose: The carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) is a risk factor for atherosclerosis that can predict the association of cardiovascular disease. Despite this, there have been few studies on the femoral artery IMT.
KyoungJea Lee, Teahyeon Kong, Keun-Myoung Park, Yong Sun Jeon, Soon Gu Cho, Kee Chun Hong   +5 more
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Contemporary incidence and risk factors for carotid artery disease in patients referred for coronary artery bypass surgery

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2012
Background In the past decade, there has been an increase in the amount of patients with medical co-morbidities referred for coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG).
Wanamaker Kelly M, Moraca Robert J, Nitzberg Diane, Magovern George J   +3 more
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Absence of right common carotid artery in a patient with common origin of the innominate artery and left common carotid artery

Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques, 2020
A 50-year-old woman was referred to the noninvasive vascular laboratory for carotid artery evaluation because of a bruit in the neck. Color Doppler ultrasound examination demonstrated absence of the right common carotid artery and parallel internal and ...
Giovanna Golin Guarinello, MD, Francisco Eduardo Coral, MD, MSc, Carlos Alberto Engelhorn, MD, PhD, Sarah Folly Machado, MS, Amanda Prokopenko, MS, Sergio Xavier Salles-Cunha, PhD   +5 more
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Relation Between Syntax Score and Complexity of Carotid Artery Disease

Journal of Contemporary Medicine, 2021
Introduction: Carotid artery disease may cause severe constriction or complete occlusion in carotid arteries, it may not give any symptoms until it appears. In some people, stroke is the first finding of the disease.
Mehtap Erdoğan, Ramazan Akdemir, Mehmet Bülent Vatan   +2 more
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Prevalence of carotid artery stenosis in ischaemic heart disease patients in Bangladesh

SAGE Open Medicine, 2019
Background: Concurrent carotid artery stenosis and ischaemic heart disease rates are increasing day by day in Bangladesh. Moreover, carotid artery stenosis has been identified as a high-risk factor for postoperative ischaemic cerebral inconvenience ...
Dipannita Adhikary, Redoy Ranjan, Sabita Mandal, Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader, Dipak Kumar Mitra, Asit Baran Adhikary   +5 more
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A promising tool to tackle the risk of cerebral vascular disease, the emergence of novel carotid wall imaging

Brain Circulation, 2020
Stroke is a heterogeneous vascular disease. Carotid artery atherosclerosis is associated with almost one-quarter of ischemic strokes. Moreover, a large percentage of preventable strokes are currently attributed to carotid atherosclerosis.
Mohammad Alkhalil
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Occlusive Disease of the Carotid Arteries [PDF]

Circulation, 1959
Within the last 10 years there has been increasing recognition of the frequency of spontaneous occlusions of the carotid arteries as a cause for neurologic deficit, and several reports of successful therapy instituted early in the disease have appeared.
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Positional transient loss of consciousness and hemispheric deficits in the setting of severe four-vessel extracranial cerebrovascular disease

Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques, 2019
Carotid artery stenosis typically causes hemispheric neurologic effects by atheroembolism. Nonhemispheric symptoms, such as syncope, are generally not attributable to extracranial carotid disease.
Colleen P. Flanagan, BA, Parth D. Sheth, MD, Jessica P. Simons, MD, MPH   +2 more
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Evaluation of asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis prior to coronary artery bypass grafting - A prospective observational study in North Indian population

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2022
Background: Carotid artery stenosis (CAS) is an established risk factor for peri-operative neurological complications in patients following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
Arghadip Bose, Krishna Prasad, Uma Debi, Harkant Singh, Prashant Panda, Saurabh Mehrotra   +5 more
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