Vulnerable plaques in the contralateral carotid arteries in symptomatic patients: a detailed ultrasound analysis.

[1]  P. Wester,et al.  Detection of calcifications in panoramic radiographs in patients with carotid stenoses ≥50%. , 2014, Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology.

[2]  P. Ibrahimi,et al.  Coronary and carotid atherosclerosis: how useful is the imaging? , 2013, Atherosclerosis.

[3]  Per Wester,et al.  Coronary and carotid atherosclerosis: similarities and differences. , 2013, Atherosclerosis.

[4]  A. Nicolaides,et al.  The size of juxtaluminal hypoechoic area in ultrasound images of asymptomatic carotid plaques predicts the occurrence of stroke. , 2013, Journal of vascular surgery.

[5]  R. Yeh,et al.  Nonculprit Plaques in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes Have More Vulnerable Features Compared With Those With Non–Acute Coronary Syndromes: A 3-Vessel Optical Coherence Tomography Study , 2012, Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging.

[6]  A. Nicolaides,et al.  Asymptomatic internal carotid artery stenosis and cerebrovascular risk stratification. , 2010, Journal of vascular surgery.

[7]  A. Nicolaides,et al.  Juxtaluminal hypoechoic area in ultrasonic images of carotid plaques and hemispheric symptoms. , 2010, Journal of vascular surgery.

[8]  H. Sillesen,et al.  18FDG PET and ultrasound echolucency in carotid artery plaques. , 2010, JACC. Cardiovascular imaging.

[9]  Deepak L. Bhatt,et al.  Three-year follow-up and event rates in the international REduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health Registry , 2009, European heart journal.

[10]  Hiroyuki Hashimoto,et al.  Computer-Assisted Analysis of Heterogeneity on B-Mode Imaging Predicts Instability of Asymptomatic Carotid Plaque , 2009, Cerebrovascular Diseases.

[11]  J. Krupiński,et al.  Angiogenesis and inflammation in carotid atherosclerosis. , 2008, Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library.

[12]  E. Vicaut,et al.  Mannheim Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Consensus (2004–2006) , 2006, Cerebrovascular Diseases.

[13]  Martin J Graves,et al.  Assessment of Inflammatory Burden Contralateral to the Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis Using High-Resolution Ultrasmall, Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide–Enhanced MRI , 2006, Stroke.

[14]  Luiz O Murta Junior,et al.  Ultrasonic tissue characterization of vulnerable carotid plaque: correlation between videodensitometric method and histological examination , 2006, Cardiovascular ultrasound.

[15]  S. Momjian,et al.  Correlation of Cerebrovascular Symptoms and Microembolic Signals With the Stratified Gray-Scale Median Analysis and Color Mapping of the Carotid Plaque , 2006, Stroke.

[16]  C.P. Loizou,et al.  Comparative evaluation of despeckle filtering in ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery , 2005, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control.

[17]  S. Momjian,et al.  Stratified Gray-Scale Median Analysis and Color Mapping of the Carotid Plaque: Correlation With Endarterectomy Specimen Histology of 28 Patients , 2005, Stroke.

[18]  P. Weissberg,et al.  Molecular and metabolic imaging of atherosclerosis. , 2004, Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

[19]  R. Pesavento,et al.  Carotid plaque morphology and cerebrovascular events. , 2003, International angiology : a journal of the International Union of Angiology.

[20]  Marios S. Pattichis,et al.  De-speckle filtering in ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery , 2002, Proceedings of the Second Joint 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society] [Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

[21]  Ali F Aburahma,et al.  Prospective controlled study of the natural history of asymptomatic 60% to 69% carotid stenosis according to ultrasonic plaque morphology. , 2002, Journal of vascular surgery.

[22]  H. Diener,et al.  Risk Factors, Outcome, and Treatment in Subtypes of Ischemic Stroke: The German Stroke Data Bank , 2001, Stroke.

[23]  Torben V. Schroeder,et al.  Ultrasonic Echolucent Carotid Plaques Predict Future Strokes , 2001, Circulation.

[24]  I. Gonçalves,et al.  Computer-assisted carotid plaque analysis: characteristics of plaques associated with cerebrovascular symptoms and cerebral infarction. , 2000, European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery.

[25]  W. Brant,et al.  Hypoechoic plaque at US of the carotid artery: an independent risk factor for incident stroke in adults aged 65 years or older. Cardiovascular Health Study. , 1998, Radiology.

[26]  J. Slattery,et al.  Randomised trial of endarterectomy for recently symptomatic carotid stenosis: final results of the MRC European Carotid Surgery Trial (ECST) , 1998, The Lancet.

[27]  A. Fox,et al.  Carotid artery stenosis: external validity of the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial measurement method. , 1997, Radiology.

[28]  M. Lindh,et al.  Accuracy of duplex sonography before carotid endarterectomy--a comparison with angiography. , 1996, European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery.

[29]  L Landini,et al.  In Vivo Ultrasonic Parametric Imaging of Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque by Videodensitometric Technique , 1995, Angiology.

[30]  A. Nicolaides,et al.  Characterization of symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid plaques using high‐resolution real‐time ultrasonography , 1993, The British journal of surgery.

[31]  R A Kronmal,et al.  Sonographic evaluation of carotid artery atherosclerosis in the elderly: relationship of disease severity to stroke and transient ischemic attack. , 1993, Radiology.