A clinical case of successful treatment a patient with atherosclerotic peripheral artery disease and clinically significant lesion the coronary carotid arteries. Patients underwent multi-stage surgical treatment. The first stage performed endovascular left internal artery, second — myocardial revascularization, third iliac arteries, fourth rotational atherectomy stenting right superficial femor...

background common carotid artery (cca) ultrasound with measurement of intima-media thickness (imt) is a safe and noninvasive technique for assessing subclinical atherosclerosis and determining cardiovascular risks. moreover, the pattern of wall thickening in the brachial artery (ba) is rather diffuse compared to the carotid artery and may be a more sensitive indicator of long-term systemic expo...

Objective: To investigate the relationship between atherosclerosis of carotid arteries and coronary arteries. Methods: This was a cross-sectional case control study and 100 patients took part in it. All participants underwent angiography to determine if they had coronary stenosis. Fifty angiography positive patients were selected as case and 50 angiography negative served as control. With a 7 M...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We undertook this case-control study in patients with unilateral spontaneous dissection of the cervical internal carotid artery to investigate spontaneous and endothelium-independent dilation of the nondissected, contralateral carotid arteries and the ipsilateral brachial artery using high-resolution ultrasound. METHODS Spontaneous and endothelial-independent (nitroglyc...

BACKGROUND The role of plasma cholesterol in impairing arterial function and elasticity remains unclear. We evaluated arterial stiffness, measured locally in the common carotid artery by high-resolution echo-tracking, and aortic stiffness, using carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) (the "gold-standard" measurement of arterial stiffness), in treatment-naive patients with heterozygous famili...

Persistent proatlantal artery type 1 is one of the four anastomotic vessels between the carotid and vertebrobasilar arterial systems. Persistence of this embryonic anastomosis is extremely rare. We present such a case with bilateral persistent proatlantal arteries that arose from internal carotid arteries, entered the skull via the foramen magnum and united with the horizontal portions of verte...

Carotid arterial dissections may result from spontaneous or traumatic causes. Postcoital arterial dissections have been reported in both the vertebral and coronary arteries. We report a rare case of spontaneous dissection from the common carotid artery to the internal and external carotid arteries after sexual intercourse, leading to fulminant middle cerebral artery (MCA) territory infarct. Alt...

Background & Aims: Diabetes is a very important factor for stroke due to blocked blood vessels. It can involve systemic and cerebrovascular arteries at the same time via microangiopathy and macroangiopathy. This project aimed to compare the intima-media thickness of carotid artery in children with diabetes type and the control group. Methods: In this case-control study, 50 children with the age...

BACKGROUND Carotid rete mirabile (CRM) is a physiological network between the external carotid and internal carotid systems in lower mammals. Very rarely, these arterial channels are observed in humans. CASE DESCRIPTION We describe a 13-year-old girl with CRM who presented with acute hemiplegia after an operation for Dieulafoy's ulcer, a submucosal vascular anomaly of the stomach. Angiogram r...

Anatomical variations of carotid arteries may be related to their development (agenesis, aplasia, hypoplasia) or course (coiling, kinking, tortuosity). Partial or total aberrancies in carotid vessel anatomy rarely occur. We describe the case of a 95-year-old woman presented with sudden onset of confusion and disorientation together with upper limb clonus. Computed tomography (CT)-scan revealed ...