Сommon carotid artery elasticity in patients with cervical artery dissection

Wall stress of the cervical carotid artery in patients with carotid dissection: a case-control study.

Spontaneous internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection (sICAD) results from an intimal tear located around the distal carotid sinus. The mechanisms causing the tear are unknown. This case-control study tested the hypotheses that head movements increase the wall stress in the cervical ICA and that the stress increase is greater in patients with sICAD than in controls. Five patients with unilateral...

Spontaneous carotid artery dissection.

Management of spontaneous dissection of the cervical carotid artery.

This manuscript reviews the management of patients with spontaneous dissection of the cervical internal carotid artery (sICAD). Recommendations are not based on controlled-randomized trials, but on case-control and observational, hospital-based studies, and case reports. Vascular risk factors seem to be as prevalent in patients with sICAD as in age-matched, healthy volunteers. Stroke prevention...

Genetic Imbalance in Patients with Cervical Artery Dissection

BACKGROUND Genetic and environmental risk factors are assumed to contribute to the susceptibility to cervical artery dissection (CeAD). To explore the role of genetic imbalance in the etiology of CeAD, copy number variants (CNVs) were identified in high-density microarrays samples from the multicenter CADISP (Cervical Artery Dissection and Ischemic Stroke Patients) study and from control subjec...

Predictors of delayed stroke in patients with cervical artery dissection.

BACKGROUND Stroke in patients with acute cervical artery dissection may be anticipated by initial transient ischemic or nonischemic symptoms. AIM Identifying risk factors for delayed stroke upon cervical artery dissection. METHODS Cervical artery dissection patients from the multicenter Cervical Artery Dissection and Ischemic Stroke Patients study were classified as patients without stroke ...