Carotid atherosclerosis does not predict coronary, vertebral, or aortic atherosclerosis in patients with acute stroke symptoms

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1604-1609

  Adraktas, Dionesia D ^b   Brasic, Natasha ^b   Furtado, Andre D ^b   Cheng, Su Chun ^b   Ordovas, Karen ^b   Chun, Kimberly ^b   Chien, Jeffrey D ^b   Schaeffer, Sarah ^b   Wintermark, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; carotid artery; carotid stenosis; computed tomography; coronary artery; imaging; vertrobrobasilary disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 77955171848     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.577437     Document Type: Article

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