OBJECTIVE To describe the topography and anatomical variations of the carotid arteries among Kenyans. DESIGN A descriptive cross-sectional study. SETTING Department of Human Anatomy, University of Nairobi. SUBJECTS Eighty carotid arteries of forty cadavers were dissected. RESULTS The bifurcation of the commonest carotid artery was high (above the reference points) in 63.8% of vessels an...

there are epidemiologic evidences suggested an increased carotid intima/media thickness (imt) as a predictor of cardiovascular disease events. the purpose of this study was to determine the differences of imt means in patients with positive and negative coronary angiographic findings. background: we conducted a case control study on patients with typical stable angina pectoris. the case group i...

the carotid is a small mass of chemoreceptor's and sustentacular cells that detects changes in the composition of the arterial blood. the aim of the present study was to identify the size, color, location, blood and nerve supply of the carotid body in makouei sheep. fourteen heads of sheep from both sexes were collected from urmia public slaughter-house. the exact situation and nerve supply of ...

BACKGROUND Early subclinical atherosclerosis has been mainly researched in carotid arteries. The potential value of femoral arteries for improving the predictive capacity of traditional risk factors is an understudied area. OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate the association of subclinical carotid and femoral plaques with risk factors and coronary artery calcium score (CACS) in middle-ag...

AANA Journal/June 2007/Vol. 75, No. 3 193 Carotid endarterectomy is a procedure used to treat severe atherosclerotic occlusive disease involving the internal carotid arteries, most often at the common carotid artery bifurcation. The operation is performed by opening the common carotid arteries and the proximal internal carotid arteries in the neck, removing plaques from the inside of the arteri...

Phonoangiography, as a noninvasive quantitative analysis of arterial bruits, was conducted just prior to standard invasive radiographic angiography in 135 patients. Sound records from 162 carotid arteries were analyzed with a new processing technique employing a high speed analog acoustic analyzer, the autocorrelator. In 18 arteries with carotid stenosis, a correlation coefficient of 0.87 resul...

Contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the neck permits low-risk evaluation of morphologic complications of carotid plaque, including (and foremost) calcification. To investigate the patterns and clinical significance of calcified deposits in the cervical carotid arteries using computed tomography we studied 40 patients with unilateral symptoms of hemispheric ischemia. Calcium deposits observ...

introduction: prevalence of stroke following coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg) is % 2.1-5.2 and associated with high mortality. the purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of carotid artery disease in patients undergoing cabg surgery.  methods: this cross-sectional study was performed in the years 2010-2011 on 192 patients who underwent open heart surgery (cabg) in ima...

our aim was to report techniques and our experience in one-stage angioplasty and stenting of ostium of left common carotid and left internal carotid arteries in an octogenarian man with transient ischemic attack, who was completely recovered from neurologic insults short time after the procedure. an 81-year-old man presented with a transient ischemic attack. neurologic examination showed left s...