Power Doppler imaging: Initial evaluation as a screening examination for carotid artery stenosis

Radiology

Volumn 215, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 791-800

  Bluth, Edward I ^a   Sunshine, Jonathan H ^b   Lyons, James B ^c   Beam, Craig A ^d   Troxclair, Laurie A ^a   Althans Kopecky, Lauren ^a   Crewson, Philip E ^b   Sullivan, Michael A ^a   Smetherman, Dana H ^a   Heidenreich, Paul A ^e   Neiman, Harvey L ^c   Burkhardt, Jeffrey H ^b  

^a OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

^c WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Carotid arteries, angiography; Carotid arteries, stenosis or obstruction; Carotid arteries, US; Ultrasound (US), Doppler studies; Ultrasound (US), power Doppler studies

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDARTERECTOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0034039481     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.215.3.r00jn22791     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Rosenberg HM, Ventura SJ, Maurer JD, et al. Births and deaths: United States, 1995 - monthly vital statistics report. Vol 45. Hyattsville, Md: National Center for Health Statistics, 1996; 31.
2. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators. Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis. N Engl J Med 1991; 325: 445-453.
3. European Carotid Surgery Trialists' Collaborative Group. MRC European Carotid Surgery Trial: interim results for symptomatic patients with severe (70%-99%) or with mild (0%-29%) carotid stenosis. Lancet 1991; 337:1235-1243.
4. Executive Committee for the Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study. Endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis. JAMA 1995; 273:1421-1428.
5. Gorelick PB, Sacco RL, Smith DB, et al. Prevention of a first stroke: a review of guidelines and a multidisciplinary consensus statement from the National Stroke Association. JAMA 1999; 281:1112-1120.
6. Strandness DE, Eikelboom BC. Carotid artery stenosis: where do we go from here? Eur J Ultrasound 1998; 7:(S3)S17-S26.
7. Irvine CD, Cole SE, Foley PX, et al. Unilateral asymptomatic carotid disease does not require surgery. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 1998; 16:245-253.
8. Olin JW, Fonseca C, Childs MB, et al. The natural history of asymptomatic moderate internal carotid artery stenosis by duplex ultrasound. Vasc Med 1998; 3:101-108.
9. Cebul RD, Snow RJ, Pine R, et al. Indications, outcomes, and provider volumes for carotid endarterectomy. JAMA 1998; 279:1282-1287.
10. Wennberg DE, Lucas FL, Birkmeyer JD, et al. Variation in carotid endarterectomy mortality in the Medicare population: trial hospitals, volume, and patient characteristics. JAMA 1998; 279:1278-1281.
11. Lee TT, Solomon NA, Heidenreich PA, et al. Cost-effectiveness of screening for carotid stenosis in asymptomatic persons. Ann Intern Med 1997; 126:337-346.
12. Yin D, Carpenter JP. Cost-effectiveness of screening for asymptomatic carotid stenosis. J Vasc Surg 1998; 27:245-255.
13. Sunshine JH, Bansal S. Professional and business characteristics of radiology groups in the United States: 1992. Radiology 1995; 194:365-371.
14. Kuntz KM, Skillman JJ, Whittemore AD, et al. Carotid endarterectomy in asymptomatic patients: is contrast angiography necessary? - a morbidity analysis. J Vasc Surg 1995; 22:706-716.
15. Murphy K, Rubin J. Power Doppler: it's a good thing. Semin Ultrasound CT MR 1997; 18:13-21.
16. Rubin JM, Bude RO, Carson PL, et al. Power Doppler ultrasound: a potentially useful alternative to mean frequency-based color Doppler ultrasound. Radiology 1994; 190:853-856.
17. Bude RO, Rubin JM, Adler RS. Power versus conventional color Doppler sonography: comparison in depiction of normal intrarenal vasculature. Radiology 1994; 192:777-780.
18. Winters WD. Power Doppler sonographic evaluation of acute pyelonephritis in children. J Ultrasound Med 1996; 15:91-96.
19. Dacher JN, Pfister C, Monroc M, et al. Power Doppler sonographic pattern of acute pyelonephritis in children: comparison with CT. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1996; 166:1451-1455.
20. Martinoli C, Crespi G, Bartolotto M, et al. Interlobular vasculature in renal transplants: a power Doppler ultrasound study with MR correlation. Radiology 1996; 200: 111-117.
21. Luker GD, Siegel MJ. Scrotal ultrasound in pediatric patients: comparison of power and standard color Doppler ultrasound. Radiology 1996; 198:381-385.
22. Coley BD, Frush DP, Babcock DS, et al. Acute testicular torsion comparison of unenhanced and contrast-enhanced power Doppler ultrasound, color Doppler ultrasound, and radionuclide imaging. Radiology 1996; 199:441-446.
23. Griewing B, Doherty C, Kessler C. Power Doppler ultrasound examination of the intracerebral and extracerebral vasculature. J Neuroimaging 1996; 6:32-35.
24. Wardlaw JM, Cannon JC. Color transcranial "power" Doppler ultrasound of intracranial aneurysms. J Neurosurg 1996; 84: 459-461.
25. Bluth EI, Stavros AT, Marich KW, et al. Carotid duplex sonography: a multicenter recommendation for standardized imaging and Doppler criteria. RadioGraphics 1988; 8:487-506.
26. Polak J. Transient ischemic attacks, strokes or carotid bruits. In: Bluth E, Arger P, Siegel M, eds. Ultrasound: a practical approach to clinical problems. New York, NY: Thieme, 2000; 523-533.
27. McNeil BJ. Primer on certain elements of medical decision making. N Engl J Med 1975; 293:211-215.
28. Mossman D. Techniques in the analysis of non-binormal ROC data. Med Decis Making 1995; 15:358-366.
29. Hanley JA, McNeil BJ. The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Radiology 1982; 143:29-36.
30. Fine-Edelstein JS, Wolf PA, O'Leary DH, et al. Precursors of extracranial carotid atherosclerosis in the Framingham study. Neurology 1994; 44:1046-1050.
31. Beam CA, Layde PM, Sullivan DC. Variability in the interpretation of screening mammograms by US radiologists. Arch Intern Med 1996; 156:209-213.
32. Getty DJ, Pickett RM, D'Orsi CJ, et al. Enhanced interpretation of diagnostic images. Invest Radiol 1988; 23:240-252.
33. Swets JA, Getty DJ, Pickett RM, et al. Enhancing and evaluating diagnostic accuracy. Med Decis Making 1991; 11: 9-18.
34. Baker JA, Kornguth PJ, Lo JY, et al. Breast cancer: prediction with artificial neural network based on BI-RADS standardized lexicon. Radiology 1995; 196:817-822.
35. Carpenter JP, Lexa FJ. Determination of sixty percent or greater carotid artery stenosis by duplex Doppler ultrasonography. J Vasc Surg 1995; 22:697-703.
36. Zwiebel WJ. New Doppler parameters for carotid stenosis. Semin Ultrasound CT MR 1997; 18:66-71.
37. Moneta GL, Edwards JM, Papanicolaou G, et al. Screening for asymptomatic internal carotid artery stenosis: duplex criteria for discriminating 60% to 99% stenosis. J Vasc Surg 1995; 21:989-994.
38. Laupacis A, Feeny D, Desky AS, et al. How attractive does a new technology have to be to warrant adoption and utilization?: tentative guidelines for using clinical and economic evaluation. Can Med Assoc J 1992; 146:473-481.
39. Mushlin AI, Mooney C, Holloway RG, et al. The cost-effectiveness of magnetic resonance imaging for patients with equivocal neurological symptoms. Int J Technol Assess Health Care 1997; 13:21-34.
40. Asch DA, Hershey JC. Why some health policies don't make sense at the bedside. Ann Intern Med 1995; 122:846-850.
41. Ransohoff DF, Feinstein AR. Problems of spectrum and bias in evaluating the efficacy of diagnostic tests. N Engl J Med 1978; 299:926-930.
42. Begg CB, McNeil BJ. Assessment of radiologic tests: control of bias and other design considerations. Radiology 1988; 167: 565-569.
43. Sunshine JH, McNeil BJ. Rapid method for rigorous assessment of radiologic imaging technologies. Radiology 1997; 202: 549-557.
44. Polak JF, Shemansky C, O'Leary DH, et al. Hypoechoic plaque at US of the carotid artery: an independent risk factor for incident stroke in adults ages 65 or older. Radiology 1998; 208:649-654.
45. Polak JF, Shemanski L, O'Leary DH, et al. Hypoechoic plaque at US of the carotid artery: an independent risk factor for incidental stroke in adults aged 65 years or older. Radiology 1998; 208:649-654. [Erratum: Radiology 1998;209:288-289.]
46. Kent KC, Kuntz KM, Patel MR, et al. Perioperative strategies for carotid endarterectomy: an analysis of morbidity and cost-effectiveness in symptomatic patients. JAMA 1995; 274:888-893.