normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: epidemic levels of obesity and overweight in today's world are leading to a higher number of mortality and morbidity, especially due to cardiovascular diseases (cvds). body fat distribution contributes a great amount to atherosclerosis formation and therefore increased cvd incidence. the present study used the ...

abstract introduction: non-invasive measurement of carotid intima media thickness (imt) has been noted as a marker for atherosclerosis and can serve as a predictor of cardiovascular accidents. the present study investigates the relationship between carotid imt and coronary artery disease (cad). method: this is a descriptive, analytical cross-sectional study of 300 individuals referring to isfah...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Advances in multidetector CT provide exquisite detail with improved delineation of the normal anatomic structures in the head and neck. The carotid body is 1 structure that is now routinely depicted with this new imaging technique. An understanding of the size range of the normal carotid body will allow the radiologist to distinguish patients with prominent normal carotid...

It has been reported that removal of caserial bone marrow aspirations, hematorotid bodies in cats results in a brief, procrit determination, and reticulocyte deterfuse reticulocytosis followed by depression mination. /2 for plasma “Fe removal, to below-normal levels of reticulocytes erythrocyte “F incorporation, and t1Cr and a progressively severe anemia. Injeclifespan determinations were perfo...

Splaying of carotid bifurcation on imaging, known as Lyre sign, is seen characteristically in carotid body tumors. Is positive Lyre sign always confirmatory of carotid body tumor? Here we discuss two cases of cervical sympathetic chain schwannoma. The first case presented radiologically as an enhancing lesion with splaying of external carotid artery and internal carotid artery (positive Lyre si...

Breathing difficulties in sleep are a hallmark of sleep-disordered breathing commonly observed in patients with sleep disorders. The pathophysiology of sleep apnea is in part due to an augmented activity of the carotid body chemoreflex. Arterial chemoreceptors in the carotid body are sensitive to inflammatory cytokines and immunogenic molecules in the circulation, because cytokine receptors are...