Incremental predictive value of carotid inflammation in acute ischemic stroke

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 272-274

  Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Benetos, Georgios ^a   Drakopoulou, Maria ^a   Deligianni, Christina ^b   Spengos, Konstantinos ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Siores, Elias ^c   Tousoulis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a Hippokration Hospital   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acute stroke; carotid atherosclerosis; inflammation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; STROKE PATIENT; SYMPTOM; ULTRASOUND; VERY ELDERLY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; STATISTICS; STROKE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84920452870     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.007526     Document Type: Article

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