Sentences with phrase «carotid arteries with»

I have mild plaque in my carotid arteries with no narrowing.

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This involves cutting the animal's trachea and esophagus (the carotid artery and jugular veins are also severed in this operation, as are most arteries and veins leading to and from the brain) with a surgically sharp knife that has been thoroughly checked for nicks beforehand.

Mackey was left with such paper - thin skin on the right side of his neck, over his carotid artery, that doctors told him one bad scratch from a dog would kill him even if he were standing in the ER, much less out on the trail.

That would be symptomatic patients, those with a serious blockage of a carotid artery and a history of at least one previous stroke.

Just like the coronary arteries, where heart attacks occur, the carotid arteries can become clogged with fatty tissue.

The study shows those apparently healthy individuals identified with increased carotid plaque burden and coronary artery calcium were two to three times more likely to have an adverse event such as an artery blockage, or a piece of plaque becoming loose causing a heart attack or stroke.

«While the risks associated with the Wada test are rare, they can be serious, including stroke and injury to the carotid artery.»

«To date, the focus of diagnosis and management of carotid artery blockages has been prevention of stroke since that was the only harm that these blockages were thought to cause to patients,» said Brajesh K. Lal, MD, with the VA Maryland Health Care System's Baltimore VA Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

«These results underscore the importance of assessing the status of memory and thinking in people with carotid artery narrowing.»

People with known carotid artery disease at the time of their ultrasound test were excluded from the dataset.

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that narrowing of the carotid artery in the neck without any symptoms may be linked to problems in learning, memory, thinking and decision - making, compared to people with similar risk factors but no narrowing in the neck artery, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014.

Dr. Berger and his colleagues found that people diagnosed with diabetes but without known heart disease are at a very high risk for developing peripheral vascular disease of the lower extremities or the carotid artery.

Every six months, subclinical atherosclerosis was assessed with measurement of carotid artery intima - media thickness (CIMT).

Surgeons working with a Minneapolis - based company called CVRx implanted an electrode the size of a half - dollar on his carotid artery.

In one, the carotid arteries were blocked with a suture for one hour, much as a blood clot blocks the flow of blood to the brain in a stroke.

Overall, those with cerebral diseases were older, had high blood pressure and had thicker carotid arteries than those who did not have cerebral small vessel disease.

Noninvasive imaging of carotid artery plaque with MRI can accurately predict future cardiovascular events like strokes and heart attacks in people without a history of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

Injecting the TRAIL - expressing stem cells into the carotid artery, a likely strategy for clinical application, led to significantly slower tumor growth and increased survival, compared with animals receiving unaltered stem cells or control injections.

OAK BROOK, Ill. — Noninvasive imaging of carotid artery plaque with MRI can accurately predict future cardiovascular events like strokes and heart attacks in people without a history of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

After first verifying that stem cells injected to the brain would travel to multiple metastatic sites and not to tumor - free areas in their model, the team injected stem cells loaded with oHSV into the carotid artery of metastasis - bearing mice..

They found that injecting into the carotid artery breast cancer cells that express markers allowing them to enter the brain — cells labelled with bioluminescent and fluorescent markers to enable tracking by imaging technologies — resulted in the formation of many metastatic tumors throughout the brain, mimicking what is seen in advanced breast cancer patients.

The researchers studied 74 patients with narrowing of the carotid arteries.

In people with HIV, low vitamin D levels have been linked to thicker carotid arteries as well as a weaker comeback for the immune system after starting antiretroviral therapy.

In men, as noted above, DHEA is a 5AR agonist, thus promoting conversion of testosterone to DHT, and has also been shown to exert anti-atherogenic effects; higher serum levels of DHEA - S correlate inversely with carotid artery intima - media thickness, plaque and blood flow volume.94

Despite never having a carotid ultrasound or similar test, I have little doubt that more than three decades of eating a SAD (standard American diet) has left me with a bit of plaque in my arteries, and the Ornish diet is supposed to reverse atherosclerosis.

Our carotid arteries, though, which connect our heart to our brain, come close enough to the surface in our necks that we can visualize the arterial wall using harmless sound waves with ultrasound.

I had my first serious accident aged 19 on a bike the same as the one pictured above, a collision with a car that severed my carotid artery.

I had my first serious accident aged 19, a collision with a car that severed my carotid artery.

Associations of egg and cholesterol intakes with carotid intima - media thickness and risk of incident coronary artery disease according to apolipoprotein E phenotype in men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study.

Telomere length and its associations with oxidized - LDL, carotid artery distensibility and smoking.

After a brief ellipsis in which he has taken her to the hospital, Ann returns in a wheelchair, debilitated by a stroke related to an obstruction in the carotid artery, with one arm paralyzed (a particularly cruel fate for a piano teacher, though the sadness of this fact is never spoken of, only reflective in Riva's eyes).

Their relationship takes an unfortunate break when Anne suffers a block in a carotid artery, a stroke which at first finds her simply zoning out of her breakfast conversation with George, yet not remembering those moments in which she was zonked.

I dodged a personal catastrophe when the lining of my left carotid artery gave way on 1 July and I ended up with a (thankfully mild) stroke.

The young woman brought a medical malpractice lawsuit against the treating doctor, claiming that he was negligent when he did not diagnose her with carotid artery dissection and that his negligence caused her to suffer serious, long - term neurological damage.

The case arose when a man was admitted to a medical center and was diagnosed with the narrowing of a carotid artery and the occlusion of a coronary artery.

Yes you can get approved for life insurance with carotid artery stenosis!

Recent studies suggest that the rate of stroke in patients with [narrowed carotid arteries without symptoms] is lower than the rates found in this trial, according to the highlighted report posted by the American Association for Critical Illness Insurance, the trade group.

In the Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial, a research team led by Dr. Alison Halliday of the John Radcliffe Hospital, the University of Oxford, randomly assigned 3,120 patients with narrowed carotid arteries to surgery or to no surgery until their condition requiCarotid Surgery Trial, a research team led by Dr. Alison Halliday of the John Radcliffe Hospital, the University of Oxford, randomly assigned 3,120 patients with narrowed carotid arteries to surgery or to no surgery until their condition requicarotid arteries to surgery or to no surgery until their condition required it.

«The finding that successful carotid artery surgery can substantially reduce the stroke risk for many years is remarkable, because it means that most of the risk of stroke over the next five years in patients with a narrowed carotid artery is caused by that single carotid lesion.

They found that negative marital interaction was associated with having a thicker carotid artery, an indicator of subclinical cardiovascular disease.

Conversely, more positive marital interaction was associated with a thinner carotid artery.