Assessment of arterial medial characteristics in human carotid arteries using integrated backscatter ultrasound and its histological implications
| Autor: | Hisayoshi Fujiwara, Shinya Minatoguchi, Masanori Kawasaki, Akira Hara, Hisato Takatsu, Yoko Ito, Yoshiro Ichiki, Genzou Takemura, Haruko Yokoyama, Masazumi Arai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Carotid Artery Diseases Male Systemic disease Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Carotid arteries Arterial Sclerosis medicine Humans Risk factor Integrated backscatter Aged Ultrasonography Aged 80 and over Scleroderma Systemic Vascular disease business.industry Ultrasound Middle Aged medicine.disease Connective tissue disease Elasticity Carotid Arteries Female Collagen Tunica Media Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Nuclear medicine |
| Zdroj: | Atherosclerosis. 180:145-154 |
| ISSN: | 0021-9150 |
| Popis: | Recently, ultrasound tissue characterization of the carotid arteries with an integrated backscatter (IB) analysis was shown to identify a high-risk group of atherosclerosis. To clarify whether IB ultrasound is useful in assessing arterial sclerosis as well as stiffness beta and whether IB values reflect the histological structure, we measured IB values of common carotid media in 52 subjects without coronary risk factors and in 10 patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in the clinical studies and 12 patients in the histological studies with a Philips Medical Systems Sonos 5500. IB values were correlated with age (r=0.69, P0.0001), intima-media thickness (r=0.72, P0.0001) and stiffness beta (r=0.80, P0.0001) in the control subjects. IB values and stiffness beta in the SSc group were greater than in an age- and sex-matched control group (IB values: 9.6+/-2.7dB versus 16.1+/-1.8dB; stiffness beta: 11.5+/-4.5 versus 20.6+/-5.6, P0.01). IB values of the media were correlated with the elastic fragmentation index (r=0.63, P=0.029) and the collagen fiber index (r=0.59, P=0.046). Measurements of IB values of carotid media are useful for non-invasively evaluating arterial sclerosis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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