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Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği Arşivi, 2014 Objectives: We aimed to determine the prevalence of significant carotid stenosis in maintenance hemodialysis patients and to identify biochemical and echocardiographic predictors of significant carotid stenosis in those patients.
Mustafa Mücahit Balcı +5 more
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Association between Carotid Artery Stenosis and Cognitive Impairment in Stroke Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 To investigate potential associations between carotid artery stenosis and cognitive impairment among patients with acute ischemic stroke and to provide important clinical implications.
Wei Yue +9 more
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Increased Expression of Interleukin-18 mRNA is Associated with Carotid Artery Stenosis
Balkan Medical Journal, 2018 Background: Carotid artery stenosis is the atherosclerotic narrowing of the proximal internal carotid artery and one of the primary causes of stroke. Elevated expression of the pleiotropic proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-18 has been demonstrated in ...
Berk Arapi +6 more
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A study on prevalence of carotid artery stenosis in acute ischaemic stroke patients in Amalapuram, Andhra Pradesh, India [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Extra cranial carotid disease due to arteriosclerosis is usually associated with hypercholesterolemia and hyperlipidemia. Extra cranial carotid stenosis has been found to be less prevalent in black American and in Egyptians while intracranial
Bharathi, Bonthu Mamatha +1 more
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Stroke prevention-surgical and interventional approaches to carotid stenosis
Indian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2013 Extra cranial carotid artery stenosis is an important cause of stroke, which often needs treatment with carotid revascularization. To prevent stroke recurrence, carotid endarterectomy (CEA) has been well-established for several decades for symptomatic ...
Kumar Rajamani, Seemant Chaturvedi
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Rate of carotid stenosis in diabetic patients with lower limb chronic ischemia
SVU - International Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background: The existence of a high-grade stenosis in the carotid arteries is thought to increase the risk of stroke in people with asymptomatic carotid illness.
Walid M. Gamal +3 more
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Atherosclerosis at Extracranial Carotid Vessels and Serum Homocysteine [PDF]
, 2019 In this chapter we will discuss more about the role of homocysteine in atherosclerosis and also association between serum homocysteine with extracranial carotid atherosclerosis. Carotid atherosclerosis comprises an increase in carotid intima-media (CIMT)
Hussain, Hafez +5 more
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Hyperhomocysteinemia and recurrent carotid stenosis [PDF]
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2008 Hyperhomocysteinemia has been identified as a potential risk for atherosclerotic disease in epidemiologic studies. This study investigates the impact of elevated serum homocysteine on restenosis after carotid endarterectomy (CEA).In a retrospective study, we compared fasting plasma homocysteine levels of 51 patients who developed restenosis during an ...
Florian Liewald +3 more
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Brain and Behavior, 2019 Background Carotid artery stenosis, mainly caused by carotid atherosclerosis, is related to ischemic stroke. This study was to investigate whether monocyte/lymphocyte ratio (MLR) was associated with increased severity of carotid stenosis in patients with
Bo Zuo +4 more
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Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stenting of carotid arteries: Early results [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2008 INTRODUCTION Treatment of carotid stenosis could be surgical: eversion endarterectomy, conventional endarterectomy and patch-plasty, resection with graft interposition and bypass procedure or, in the past few years, carotid artery angioplasty (PTA) with ...
Čolić Momčilo +3 more
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