OBJECTIVE Neurologic complications during carotid artery stenting (CAS) are usually associated with distal embolic event. These embolic incident during CAS are highly associated with the carotid plaque instability. The current study was undertaken to identify the angiographic characteristics of carotid plaque vulnerability, which was represented as filling defect in the cerebral protection filt...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is an important therapeutic strategy for patients with carotid artery stenosis. However, the potential influence of CAS on cognitive function in patients with carotid artery stenosis and cerebral lacunar infarction has not been determined. This study investigated changes in cognitive function associated with CAS and the factors related to ...

OBJECTIVE To study the incidence, types, geographical distribution, and risk factors of congenital anomalies (CAs) in a teaching hospital. METHODS A total of 5864 neonates were examined for CAs between October 2010 and October 2011 in Al-Ramadi Maternity and Children's Teaching Hospital, Al-Ramadi, Western Iraq. Data include: neonate's name, gender, weight, and type of CAs, mother's age, resi...

Chen (SIBS, CAS), Xuefeng Huang (First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College), Hongjun Li (Peking Union Medical College), Zheng Li (Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jaio Tong University School of Medicine), Zhongdon Qiao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Jian Wang (Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research), Hua Xu (SIBS, CAS), Wenjuan Zhang (SIBS, CAS), Qinzhu Zheng (Asian Journal of A...

D R U G E L U T I N G S T E N T S ( D E S ) A R E N O W W I D E L Y U S E D F O R P A T I E N T S W I T H C O R O N A R Y A R T E R Y D I S E A S E U N D E R G O I N G P E R C U T A N E O U S C O R O N A R Y I N T E R V E N T I O N S . A current major concern of using DES is very late stent thrombosis (VLST) that may occur beyond 1 year after DES implantation (1). VLST is an infrequent, albeit ...

We present a method and an associated system, called MATHCHECK, that embeds the functionality of a computer algebra system (CAS) within the inner loop of a conflict-driven clause-learning SAT solver. SAT+CAS systems, a la MATHCHECK, can be used as an assistant by mathematicians to either counterexample or finitely verify open universal conjectures on any mathematical topic (e.g., graph and numb...

CEA contralateral to an ICA occlusion is considered a surgical risk, and CAS may be an alternative for these patients. Our goal was to examine whether CAS improves cerebral hemodynamics on the treated side and on the side of the ICA occlusion, on the basis of measurement of CBF and CVR by using SPECT. The subjects were 8 patients who underwent contralateral CAS. Resting CBF and CVR to acetazola...

Embryonic development requires generating cell types at the right place (spatial patterning) and the right time (temporal patterning). Drosophila neuroblasts undergo stem cell-like divisions to generate an ordered sequence of neuronal progeny, making them an attractive system to study temporal patterning. Embryonic neuroblasts sequentially express Hunchback, Krüppel, Pdm1/Pdm2 (Pdm), and Castor...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Whether cerebral protection during carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) is associated with a lower risk of periprocedural stroke or death remains to be established. We report on 80 patients randomized in the CAS arm of the Endarterectomy Versus Angioplasty in Patients With Symptomatic Severe Carotid Stenosis trial comparing CAS (with or without cerebral protection) with...