Natural history of aortic arch atherosclerotic plaque

Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 749-751

  Geraci, Anthony ^a   Weinberger, Jesse ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic arch; Atherosclerosis; B mode ultrasonography; Cerebrovascular disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034620522     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.54.3.749     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Winter WJ Jr. Atheromatous emboli: a cause of cerebral infarction. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1957;64:137-142.
2. Tunick PA, Kronzon I. Protruding atherosclerotic plaque in the aortic arch of patients with systemic embolization: a new finding seen by transesophageal echocardiography. Am Heart J 1990;120:658-660.
3. Amarenco P, Cohen A, Tzourio C, et al. Atherosclerotic disease of the aortic arch and the risk of ischemic stroke. N Engl J Med 1994;331:1474-1479.
4. Jones EF, Kalman JM, Calafiore P, Tonkin AM, Donnan GA. Proximal aortic atheroma: an independent risk factor for cerebral ischemia. Stroke 1995;26:218-224.
5. The French Study of Aortic Plaques in Stroke Group. Atherosclerotic disease of the aortic arch as a risk factor for recurrent ischemic stroke. N Engl J Med 1996;334:1216-1221.
6. Mitusch R, Doherty C, Wucherpfenning H, et al. Vascular events during follow-up in patients with aortic arch atherosclerosis. Stroke 1997;28:36-39.
7. Dressler FA, Craig WR, Castello R, Labovitz AJ. Mobile aortic atheroma and systemic emboli: efficacy of anticoagulation and influence of plaque morphology on recurrent stroke. J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;31:134-138.
8. Weinberger J, Azhar S, Danisi F, Hayes R, Goldman M. A new noninvasive technique for imaging atherosclerotic plaque in the aortic arch of stroke patients by transcutaneous real-time B-mode ultrasonography. Stroke 1998;29:673-676.
9. Weinberger J, Papamitsakis N, Newfield A, Godbold J, Goldman M. Plaque morphology correlates with cerebrovascular symptoms in patients with complex aortic arch plaque. Arch Neurol 2000 (in press).
10. Cohen A, Tzourio C, Bertrand B, Chauvel C, Bousser M-G, Amarenco P. Aortic plaque morphology and vascular events: a follow-up study in patients with ischemic stroke. Circulation 1997;96:3838-3841.