Hintergrund: Die Bestimmung der Konzentration des Cholesteringehaltes der Haut (SkC) könnte einen zusätzlichen Parameter in der Evaluation des kardiovaskulären Risikos darstellen. Daher untersuchten wir neben der Testgenauigkeit und potentiellen ...
Hintergrund: Diese Studie wurde durchgeführt, um zu überprüfen, ob das C-reaktive Protein (CRP) im Vergleich zu etablierten Risikofaktoren der Arteriosklerose (Geschlecht, Alter, Diabetes mellitus, Hochdruck, Rauchen) besser mit einem Rezidiv nach ...
Hintergrund: Ziel dieser Studie war es, einerseits die Korrelation zwischen dem Schweregrad der koronaren Atherosklerose und der Häufigkeit der peripheren arteriellen Verschlusskrankheit (pAVK) zu untersuchen und andererseits festzustellen, ob sich diese ...
Hintergrund: Atherosklerotisch bedingte Läsionen an den oberen Extremitäten entstehen drei- bis fünfmal häufiger am Abgang der linken Arteria subclavia im Vergleich zur rechten Seite. Das Ziel dieser Studie ist es, die hämodynamischen Kräfte (maximale ...
Hintergrund: Das Vorliegen eines Diabetes mellitus (DM) und einer Niereninsuffizienz (NI) bei Patienten mit einer peripheren arteriellen Verschlusskrankheit (pAVK) prädestiniert für eine obstruktive Arteriopathie, die insbesondere die infrapoplitealen ...
This case report describes the very uncommon event of mummification of the lower limb occurring naturally in a patient with peripheral arterial occlusive disease aggravated by severe reactive aversion and serves as a warning that this can happen in cases ...
Hintergrund: Die endovaskuläre Therapie wird zunehmend zur Behandlung der chronischen atherosklerotischen mesenterialen Verschlusskrankheit verwendet. Ziel dieser Studie war die Evaluation der Offenheitsrate bei Patienten nach perkutaner transluminaler ...
Background: Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affecting the femoropopliteal artery is treated by endovascular interventions [2, 5, 13] increasingly. Aim of the study was to evaluate mid-term efficacy and patency of long stents in the superficial femoral and ...
Background: Atherosclerosis is emerging as an important complication of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with coronary artery disease being projected as the major cause of mortality in these patients.This study was undertaken to evaluate the presence of ...
The use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) for vascular imaging indications has increased dramatically during the last decade. Ultrasound contrast agents are gas-filled microbubbles that are injected into the bloodstream and serve as strict ...
Background: Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) is more and more used for evaluation and quantification of coronary artery calcification, but correlation between the degree of calcification and occurrence of clinical events is also known for other ...
Radiation induced atherosclerosis of the carotid artery is a clinically relevant late complication after head and neck radiotherapy. Improved long-term survival after multimodality therapy in neck malignancies result in an increased risk of carotid artery ...
Background: Neovascularization is one of the most important risk factors for unstable plaque. This study was designed to correlate plaque thickness, artery stenosis and levels of serum C-reactive protein with the degree of intraplaque enhancement ...
Abstract. Summary: The term “LDL hypothesis” is frequently used to describe the association of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-cholesterol, LDL-C) and cardiovascular (CV) events. Recent data from genetic studies prove a causal relation between ...
Abstract. Background: Qualitative change in carotid plaques was prospectively evaluated by Gray Scale Median (GSM) analysis at repeated examinations “in vivo”, in relation to quantitative change in carotid arterial geometry, as assessed by high-resolution ...
Abstract.Background: Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is an autosomal recessive inherited multisystem disorder of the connective tissue caused by a loss-of-function mutation of the ABCC6 gene. It can affect the ...
Abstract.Background: The beneficial effect of statin therapy on the progress of atherosclerotic disease has been demonstrated by numerous studies. Vascular strain imaging is an arising method to evaluate arterial ...
Abstract.Background: Genome-wide association studies identified several gene variants associated with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Among them, rs6584389 A>C was significantly associated with PAD defined by ...
Abstract.Background: The role of vascular calcifications in iliac arteries for predicting global atherosclerotic burden in still unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate whether iliac calcium score (ICS), ...