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We present a 61-year-old female with an unruptured intracranial aneurysm on the left superior hypophyseal artery. The patient was treated with endovascular management, stent-assisted coil embolization. Multiple embolic infarction and total occlusion of the left internal carotid artery (ICA) was occurred one day later. At 14 days of heparinization, complete recanalization of the ICA and full rec...

A 48 years-old Japanese man suffered from marked xanthomas on ankles, knees, hand fingers, and foot joints due to insufficient control of serum hypercholesterolemia despite low density lipoprotein (LDL-C) absorptive therapy followed by treatment with potent anti-hypercholesterolemic agents. He had undergone surgical resection of xanthoma on the knee, foot and hand finger joints. Treatment with ...

Antiphospholipid syndrome is characterized by arterial or venous thrombosis and the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). We measured β2-GPI aCL, IgGaCL, LA, antiphosphatidyl-serine antibody (PS), and antiphosphatidyl-inositol antibody (PI) in each patient at one month after the onset of stroke. In addition, carotid artery echography was performed in patients positive for PI or PS. Amo...

background: the incidence of stroke is 2.1-5.2% in bypass surgery patients with a mortality of 0-38%. this study was designed to evaluate the incidence of significant carotid artery stenosis and its related risk factors in candidates for coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery. methods: 1045 consecutive candidates for cabg underwent carotid artery doppler examination in a prospective study....

A young man with cerebral infarction, skeletal, cardiac and renal malformations was found to have on angiography a rare lesion involving the cervical left internal carotid artery, formed by the superposition of two arterial lumina. Anti-platelet therapy did not prevent thrombosis of the lesion and reinfarction. Extracranial-intracranial bypass graft was performed, followed by excision of the ar...

Cavernous carotid aneurysms (CCAs) are uncommon pathologic entities. Extradural place and the skull base location make this type of an aneurysm different in clinical features and treatment techniques. Direct aneurysm clipping is technically difficult and results in a significant postoperative neurological deficit. Therefore, several techniques of indirect surgical treatment were developed with ...

Background: Most acute coronary syndromes occur due to thrombosis caused by plaque rupture (PR) and erosion (PE). Precise in vivo differentiation between PR PE is challenging for intravascular imaging. This study the first determine diagnostic performance of novel 60 MHz high-definition ultrasound (HD-IVUS) differentiating atherosclerotic morphology influenced local hemodynamic flow rabbits. ev...

BACKGROUND Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a putative risk factor for myocardial infarction and stroke and is related to thrombosis and impaired fibrinolysis. We studied relationships of Lp(a) with carotid stenosis, occlusion, and total plaque area, distinct phenotypes of atherosclerosis that may be differentially affected by cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS AND RESULTS Multivariable linear reg...

Occlusion of the internal carotid or middle cerebral artery was seen in 44 young adults of both sexes from a rural population in Ceylon over a period of four years. None had hypertension, diabetes, prediabetes, or hypercholesterolaemia. There were 19 men with internal carotid occlusions, most being due to atherosclerotic thrombosis. The high incidence of atherosclerosis in these patients on a m...