External carotid artery plaques are associated with intracranial stenosis in patients with advanced coronary artery disease

Vasc Med. 2019 Aug;24(4):359-360. doi: 10.1177/1358863X19849626. Epub 2019 May 19.

Authors

Jurgita Valaikiene¹, Ligita Ryliskyte², Arunas Valaika³, Roma Puronaite^{2

4}, Pranas Vaitkus⁵

Affiliations

¹ 1 Centre of Neurology, Clinic of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
² 2 Centre of Cardiology and Angiology, Clinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
³ 3 Centre of Cardiac Surgery, Clinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
⁴ 4 Centre of Informatics and Development, Department of Information Systems, Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania.
⁵ 5 Department of Mathematical Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.

PMID: 31106711
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X19849626

No abstract available

Keywords: atherosclerosis; carotid artery disease; coronary artery disease (CAD); duplex ultrasound; intracranial stenosis; transcranial duplex sonography.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Carotid Artery Diseases / complications*
Carotid Artery Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Carotid Artery Diseases / pathology
Carotid Artery, External / diagnostic imaging
Carotid Artery, External / pathology*
Coronary Angiography
Coronary Artery Disease / complications*
Coronary Artery Disease / diagnostic imaging
Female
Humans
Intracranial Arterial Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Intracranial Arterial Diseases / etiology*
Male
Middle Aged
Plaque, Atherosclerotic*
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color
Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial / methods