Carotid Artery Diseases

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Time rate" of 24-hour blood pressure variability. 
  • 10 most commonly asked questions about carotid artery occlusion. 
  • A follow-up survey of clinical practices for the use of heparin, warfarin, and aspirin. 
  • A pressure-mediated nonviral method for efficient arterial gene and oligonucleotide transfer. 
  • A role of matrix metalloproteinase-8 in atherosclerosis. 
  • A semiautomated ultrasound border detection program that facilitates clinical measurement of ultrasound carotid intima-media thickness. 
  • Absence of selective deep white matter ischemia in chronic carotid disease. 
  • Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of vulnerable plaques: a finite element method parametric analysis. 
  • Aneurysms of the petrous internal carotid artery: anatomy, origins, and treatment. 
  • Association of intracranial aneurysm and Loeys-Dietz syndrome: case illustration, management, and literature review. 
  • Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis. 
  • Benign prognosis of never-symptomatic carotid occlusion. 
  • CT angiography of the circle of Willis: is spiral technology always necessary? 
  • Carotid Blowout Management in the Endovascular Era. 
  • Carotid arteriography: still golden after all these years? 
  • Carotid atherosclerosis and prospective risk of dementia. 
  • Carotid endarterectomy and race: do clinical indications and patient preferences account for differences? 
  • Carotid endarterectomy for stroke prevention in older people. 
  • Carotid web: an occult mechanism of embolic stroke. 
  • Cavernous carotid aneurysms: a new treatment paradigm in the era of flow diversion. 
  • Cerebral hemodynamics and cognitive impairment: baseline data from the RECON trial. 
  • Cerebral hemodynamics in ischemic cerebrovascular disease. 
  • Chromosome 1q21.2 and additional loci influence risk of spontaneous coronary artery dissection and myocardial infarction. 
  • Clinical assessment of atherosclerotic lesions: emerging from angiographic shadows. 
  • Commentary: Extracranial-intracranial bypass for stroke in 2012: response to the critique of the carotid occlusion surgery study "It was déjà vu all over again". 
  • Comparing MRS and PET. 
  • Comparison of thickness and distensibility in the carotid artery and descending thoracic aorta: in vivo ultrasound assessment. 
  • Compensatory mechanisms for chronic cerebral hypoperfusion in patients with carotid occlusion. 
  • Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography of carotid arteries: utility in routine clinical practice. 
  • Count-based PET method for predicting ischemic stroke in patients with symptomatic carotid arterial occlusion. 
  • Current outcomes of simultaneous carotid endarterectomy and coronary artery bypass graft surgery in North America. 
  • Decision making in the face of uncertainty: the case of carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Diagnostic evaluation of the carotid arteries. Health and Public Policy Committee, American College of Physicians. 
  • Dimensions of and Responses to Perceived Discrimination and Subclinical Disease Among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study. 
  • Direct endovascular recanalization of chronic carotid occlusion: should we do it? Case report. 
  • Dissection of the internal carotid and vertebral arteries: imaging features. 
  • Distribution and predictors of carotid intima-media thickness in young adults. 
  • Does anesthetic technique make a difference? Augmentation of systolic blood pressure during carotid endarterectomy: effects of phenylephrine versus light anesthesia and of isoflurane versus halothane on the incidence of myocardial ischemia. 
  • Dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI with localized arterial input functions. 
  • EEG changes during awake carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Efficacy and safety of rivaroxaban compared with warfarin in patients with carotid artery disease and nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: Insights from the ROCKET AF trial. 
  • Endarterectomy in carotid artery disease. A decision analysis. 
  • Endothelial denudation and myointimal thickening in the rat carotid artery induced by the passage of bubbles. 
  • Endovascular management of carotid blowout. 
  • Enhanced, rapid occlusion of carotid and vertebral arteries using the AMPLATZER Vascular Plug II device: the Duke Cerebrovascular Center experience in 8 patients with 22 AMPLATZER Vascular Plug II devices. 
  • Epicardial adipose tissue and carotid artery disease: Protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Exercise-related dissection of craniocervical arteries: CT, MR, and angiographic findings. 
  • Expanding opportunities to understand quality and outcomes of peripheral vascular interventions: The ACC NCDR PVI Registry. 
  • Expression of tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 in arterial wall cells promotes atherosclerosis. 
  • Extracranial-intracranial bypass surgery: hemodynamic and metabolic effects. 
  • Fate of the Ophthalmic Artery After Treatment With the Pipeline Embolization Device. 
  • Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 Is Associated With Carotid Plaque Presence and Area: The Northern Manhattan Study. 
  • Fibrosis-related biomarkers and large and small vessel disease: the Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Flow restriction of one carotid artery in juvenile rats inhibits growth of arterial diameter. 
  • Focused ultrasound (HIFU) induces localized enhancement of reporter gene expression in rabbit carotid artery. 
  • Genome-wide linkage analysis of carotid artery traits in exceptionally long-lived families. 
  • Going from Darkness to Gray Zones of Knowledge: The Role of Biomarkers on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events after Carotid Interventions. 
  • Guidelines for carotid endarterectomy. A multidisciplinary consensus statement from the Ad Hoc Committee, American Heart Association. 
  • Guidelines for carotid endarterectomy: a statement for healthcare professionals from a Special Writing Group of the Stroke Council, American Heart Association. 
  • Highlights from the American Heart Association annual scientific sessions 2001: November 11 to 14, 2001. 
  • Improvement of cardiovascular risk prediction: time to review current knowledge, debates, and fundamentals on how to assess test characteristics. 
  • Increased oxygen extraction fraction is associated with prior ischemic events in patients with carotid occlusion. 
  • Indium-111 platelet scintigraphy in cerebrovascular disease. 
  • Individual progression of carotid intima media thickness as a surrogate for vascular risk (PROG-IMT): Rationale and design of a meta-analysis project. 
  • Influence of cerebral hemodynamics on stroke risk: one-year follow-up of 30 medically treated patients. 
  • Internal carotid artery dissection associated with pituitary apoplexy: MR findings. 
  • Ipsilateral internal carotid artery redissection on anticoagulation. 
  • Ipsilateral internal carotid artery web and acute ischemic stroke: A cohort study, systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Lack of correlation between pattern of collateralization and misery perfusion in patients with carotid occlusion. 
  • Localized delivery of nitric oxide from hydrogels inhibits neointima formation in a rat carotid balloon injury model. 
  • Long-term stabilization of vein graft wall architecture and prolonged resistance to experimental atherosclerosis after E2F decoy oligonucleotide gene therapy. 
  • Lower stroke risk with lower blood pressure in hemodynamic cerebral ischemia. 
  • MR spectroscopy of cholesteryl ester in human atherosclerosis. 
  • Magnetic resonance microscopy of the rat carotid artery at 300 megahertz. 
  • Management of Patients with Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Carotid Artery Disease: Update on Anti-Thrombotic Therapy. 
  • Measuring carotid artery intima-media thickness: simplicity versus complexity? 
  • Multiple intra-aneurysmal WEB devices: Case discussions and operative technique. 
  • Noncanonical Matrix Metalloprotease 1-Protease-Activated Receptor 1 Signaling Drives Progression of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Noninvasive carotid artery testing. 
  • Noninvasive carotid artery testing. 
  • Nonstenotic carotid plaques: Stroke causation or guilt by association? 
  • Nonstenotic internal carotid arteries: effects of age and blood pressure at the time of scanning on Doppler US velocity measurements. 
  • Ocular blood flow in unilateral carotid stenosis and hypotension. 
  • PET screening of carotid occlusion. 
  • Perfusion CT compared to H(2) (15)O/O (15)O PET in patients with chronic cervical carotid artery occlusion. 
  • Pipeline Embolization Device for the Treatment of Intracranial Pseudoaneurysms. 
  • Plasma des-acyl ghrelin, but not plasma HMW adiponectin, is a useful cardiometabolic marker for predicting atherosclerosis in elderly hypertensive patients. 
  • Postendarterectomy mortality in octogenarians and nonagenarians in the USA from 1993 to 1999. 
  • Predictors of carotid intima-media thickness progression in young adults: the Bogalusa Heart Study. 
  • Primary care physician-reported secondary and tertiary stroke prevention practices. A comparison between the United States and the United Kingdom. 
  • Proximal embolic protection versus distal filter protection versus combined protection in carotid artery stenting: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Quantitative measurements of cerebral blood flow in patients with unilateral carotid artery occlusion: a PET and MR study. 
  • Racial inequity of access to carotid imaging. 
  • Recurrent Hemispheric Stroke Syndromes in Symptomatic Atherosclerotic Internal Carotid Artery Occlusions: The Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study Randomized Trial. 
  • Recurrent arteriotracheal fistula. 
  • Recurrent transient ischemic attacks and stroke associated with an internal carotid artery web. 
  • Recurrent transient ischemic attacks and stroke in association with an internal carotid artery web. 
  • Reply to a letter on carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Risk of ischemic heart disease in patients with TIA. 
  • Risk of late stroke and survival following carotid endarterectomy procedures for symptomatic patients. 
  • Rivaroxaban with or without aspirin in patients with stable peripheral or carotid artery disease: an international, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. 
  • Rupture of a Common Carotid Artery Aneurysm. 
  • Ruptured Salmonella mycotic aneurysm of the extracranial carotid artery. 
  • Safety of stenting and endarterectomy by symptomatic status in the Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy Versus Stenting Trial (CREST). 
  • Segment-specific association between plasma homocysteine level and carotid artery intima-media thickness in the Framingham Offspring Study. 
  • Sex Differences in the Association between Traditional Vascular Risk Factors and Subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis in Taiwan. 
  • Skin manifestations, multiple aneurysms, and carotid-cavernous fistula in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV. 
  • Smooth muscle cell proliferation in the occluded rat carotid artery: lack of requirement for luminal platelets. 
  • Spontaneous vertebral dissection: clinical, conventional angiographic, CT, and MR findings. 
  • Spontanous resolution of post-traumatic carotid-cavernous sinus fistula. 
  • Stenting for Acute Carotid Artery Dissection. 
  • Stroke and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Carotid Disease Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. 
  • Stroke due to recurrent ipsilateral carotid artery dissection in a young adult. 
  • Teaching NeuroImages: Radiation-associated symptomatic carotid artery disease with ipsilateral radiodermatitis. 
  • Tempol therapy attenuates medial smooth muscle cell apoptosis and neointima formation after balloon catheter injury in carotid artery of diabetic rats. 
  • The Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study. 
  • The effect of carotid artery disease on the cerebrovascular response to physiologic stimulation. 
  • The effect of statin use and intensity on stroke and myocardial infarction after carotid endarterectomy. 
  • The efficacy of endosaccular aneurysm occlusion in alleviating neurological deficits produced by mass effect. 
  • The efficacy of endovascular stenting in the treatment of supraclinoid internal carotid artery blister aneurysms using a stent-in-stent technique. 
  • To what extent should quality of care decisions be based on health outcomes data? Application to carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Treatment of an iatrogenic petrous carotid artery pseudoaneurysm with a Symbiot covered stent: technical case report. 
  • Treatment of blister-like aneurysms with the pipeline embolization device. 
  • Usefulness of carotid intima-media thickness measurement as an indicator of generalized atherosclerosis: findings from autopsy analysis. 
  • Utility of CT angiography in the identification and characterization of supraclinoid internal carotid artery blister aneurysms. 
  • Utility of noninvasive studies in the evaluation of patients with carotid artery disease. 
  • When and how to study the carotid arteries. 
  • William M. Feinberg award for excellence in clinical stroke: hemodynamics and stroke risk in carotid artery occlusion. 
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  • Hasan, David, Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery