BACKGROUND The cerebrovasuclar artery disease as a common complication of type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) caused huge economic burden and lives threatening to patients. We evaluated the prevalence and morphology of carotid and cerebrovascular atherosclerotic plaques in T2DM patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke using multidetector CT (MDCT). METHODS 64-MDCT and dual-source C...

Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystemic autoimmune disease. 1 Atherosclerosis considered an alteration of the arteries by abnormal deposit lipids and fibrous tissue. 2 Cardiovascular disease one leading causes morbidity mortality, especially due to its precocity, which occurs in women during childbearing age, associated with higher prevalence cardiovascular (CVD), acce...

Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) has emerged as a game-changer for treating complex and severely calcified lesions. There have been increasing cases of IVL usage in different clinical scenarios. Therefore, we reviewed the literature to assess current use non-coronary artery PubMed Embase were accessed case reports series on peripheral disease, excluding conference abstracts. We then calculated m...

Original Articles 10 The perimenopausal atherosclerosis transition: relationships between calcified and noncalcified coronary, aortic, and carotid atherosclerosis and risk factors and hormone levels Jamalah A. Munir, MD, Hongyan Wu, MD, MPH, Kelly Bauer, RN, Jody Bindeman, BSN, Carole Byrd, RN, Irwin M. Feuerstein, MD, Todd C. Villines, MD, and Allen J. Taylor, MD Markers of androgenicity (incr...

OBJECTIVE To identify a plasma biomarker of atheromatous disease. METHODS AND RESULTS Surface-enhanced laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry was used to identify possible plasma protein biomarkers of atheromatous disease in patients presenting with chronic stable angina pectoris by comparing those with 3-vessel disease with those without any evidence of coronary artery ...

Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis To the Editor: The recent publication of ACST confirmed the findings from a previous randomized controlled trial that carotid endarterectomy reduces the number of strokes in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenoses.1,2 These findings could be interpreted as a basis for screening for carotid artery stenoses and the widespread expansion of carotid interventions in...

the carotid sinus is a modification in the vascular wall near the bifurcation each common carotid artery and acts as baroreceptor. in this study 16 adult and apparently healthy buffaloes ie. 8 male and 8 female used for the as well as macroscopic orientation microscopic study of the carotid sinus. our study revealed that in the buffalo, carotid sinus is a dilatation in common carotid artery at ...