A 42-year-old man presented with asymptomatic traumatic carotid artery dissection 3 months after sustaining blunt injury with tracheal laceration. Magnetic resonance imaging performed as a screening procedure for asymptomatic carotid artery injury unexpectedly showed dissection of the carotid artery. Angiography confirmed carotid artery dissection with narrowing of the true lumen. Balloon angio...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Limited data exist on the frequency and outcome of carotid artery disease in Pakistan. Such information would help guide the usefulness of screening for the condition in this low-middle income health care setting. METHODS A prospective, descriptive study was conducted among 3 large teaching hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. Patients referred for carotid Doppler ultrasound...

Due to the lack of convincing data about the association between atherosclerosis and osteoporosis, we evaluated the association between carotid atherosclerosis and bone mineral density in a sample of apparently healthy postmenopausal women who underwent health-screening in our hospital. We also evaluated a bone turnover marker, osteocalcin; we divided the population into 2 groups according to o...

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BACKGROUND Patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are at an increased risk for cardiovascular (CV) disease.  The aim of this study was to identify the frequency of carotid plaque in asymptomatic patients with psoriatic arthritis at baseline and follow-up screening, and to assess for the impact of demonstrating plaque on management of traditional cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS Eighty-se...

Proper assessment of endovascular patency after carotid stent (CS) placement with carotid color-coded duplex sonography (CCCD) can be difficult. We investigated the usefulness of contrast-enhanced (CE) CCCD for post-CS follow-up. CCCD images could not depict the entire bloodstream in overlapped stents and in highly positioned stents. CE-CCCD images, however, did provide anatomic information alm...

BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence to suggest that not all individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have equal risk for developing cardiovascular disease. We sought to compare the yield of testing for pre-clinical atherosclerosis with various approaches. METHODS 98 asymptomatic individuals with T2DM without known coronary artery disease (CAD) were enrolled in a prospective study ...

the management of asymptomatic carotid stenosis can be a dilemma to the primary care physician. In this review, we hope to update the reader on current insights into asymptomatic carotid atherosclerosis. Carotid stenosis is defined as the atherosclerotic narrowing of the proximal internal carotid artery exceeding 70% in severe cases and 50% in moderate cases. The prevalence of carotid stenosis ...