Of the 29 091 consecutive patients, who underwent angiography via the femoral artery, 432 patients with a postprocedural PSA were identified by clinical-directed ultrasound examination, resulting in ...

Ultrasound is used to assess risk stratification in patients with coronary artery disease. However, few studies quantify the relationship between carotid or lower limb atherosclerosis and coronary ...

In our study, the strategy of femoral artery screening by vascular ultrasound in patients with stroke seems to be effective and detects high‐risk patients. This subgroup of multiple‐site artery ...

Abstract: Summary form only given. This paper introduces a novel segmentation scheme for carotid artery ultrasound images. The proposed scheme is based on watershed segmentation algorithm. It consists ...

What is a carotid artery duplex scan? You have two carotid arteries in your neck that bring blood from your heart to your brain. The test may also look at the vertebrobasilar artery. This artery also ...

Enhanced screening may include additional testing with stress ECG, coronary artery calcium scoring alone, or combined with a CTCA investigation, and vascular ultrasound imaging (VUI). The threshold ...

Compared with studies assessing cranial arteries only, low RoB studies with ultrasound assessing both cranial and extracranial arteries revealed a higher sensitivity (93% (95% CI 88% to 96%) vs 80% ...

This was not palpable but was visualized by ultrasound (Figure 1A) and proved to be a recurrent liposarcoma by image-guided core needle biopsy. The tumor was limited to the abdominal wall.

Abstract: We describe a fully automated ultrasound analysis system that tracks and identifies the common carotid artery (CCA) and the internal jugular vein (IJV). Our goal is to prevent inadvertent ...

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Dr Khot says a growing number of her pregnant patients are unknowingly booking in reassurance scans, rather than a medical ultrasound as pat of a recent boom. "There are more and more providers ...