Difference in blood flow volume of the common carotid artery between vascular and non-vascular dementia detected by colour duplex sonography

1993 ◽  
Vol 240 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadashi Hamada ◽  
Masashi Takita ◽  
Hideo Kawano ◽  
Akito Noh-tomi ◽  
Masahiro Okayama
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujith S. Pereira ◽  
Ajay K. Sinha ◽  
Divyen K. Shah ◽  
Stephen T. Kempley

2021 ◽  
pp. 154431672110539
Author(s):  
Anastasiya Yu. Vishnyakova ◽  
Nataliya M. Medvedeva ◽  
Alexander B. Berdalin ◽  
Svetlana E. Lelyuk ◽  
Vladimir G. Lelyuk

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine blood flow volume (BFV) in the normal state and its features in patients with acute posterior circulation ischemic strokes (PCIS) and vertebrobasilar insufficiency (VBI) using color duplex sonography (DS).Methods: The study included DS data from 96 patients with verified PCIS (66 men and 30 women, aged 64±13 years) and 29 adults with VBI (17 men and 12 women, aged 66±11 years). The control group consisted of 65 healthy male volunteers of different ages.Results: In asymptomatic healthy volunteers, there was a significant decrease in BFV in the internal carotid artery (ICA) with age (502 ml/min in young people, 465 ml/min in the older subgroup) with rS = −0.24 ( p = 0.05), and the aggregated BFV in the vertebral arteries (VAs) turned out to be almost constant (141–143 ml/min). In patients with VBI, the aggregated BFV in the VAs (144 ml/min) did not differ from that in healthy volunteers, but the BFV values in the ICAs were significantly lower (325 ml/min). In patients with PCIS, the aggregated BFV in the ICAs was also significantly lower (399 ml/min) than in the control group but did not significantly differ from that in patients with VBI. In patients with PCIS, there was a significant decrease in the aggregated BFV in the VAs (105 ml/min), which distinguished this group from other examined patients.Conclusions: A significant decrease the BFV in the VA was observed only in patients with PCIS and was associated with the presence of steno-occlusive diseases (SOD) more often in the left VA. Patients with VBI had the most pronounced decrease in BFV in the ICA.


1998 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally-Ann Colbert ◽  
Deirdre M. Ohanlon ◽  
Fidelma Flanagan ◽  
Rory Page ◽  
Denis C. Moriarty

Author(s):  
A.V. ZHIDKOV ◽  
A.A. MAKAROV ◽  
K.V. PODMASTERYEV ◽  
M.P. ZHILTSOV ◽  
D.E. CHEKMAREVA

The statistical data on epilepsy, etiology and pathogenesis of the disease are given in the article. The main causes that affect the occurrence of epileptic seizures, and possible predictors that are sensitive to these causes (metabolic rate, blood flow velocity, change in electrical activity of the brain) are highlighted. The blood flow dynamics in the common carotid artery, which supplies the brain with oxygen and nutrients is proposed to be considered as one of the possible internal physiological parameters that are believed to be predictors of epileptic seizures.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-Lei Peng ◽  
Cheng-Ting Shih ◽  
Chiun-Wei Huang ◽  
Shao-Chieh Chiu ◽  
Wu-Chung Shen

2018 ◽  
Vol 315 (2) ◽  
pp. H233-H241 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Pomella ◽  
E. N. Wilhelm ◽  
C. Kolyva ◽  
J. González-Alonso ◽  
M. Rakobowchuk ◽  
...  

Noninvasively determined local wave speed ( c) and wave intensity (WI) parameters provide insights into arterial stiffness and cardiac-vascular interactions in response to physiological perturbations. However, the effects of incremental exercise and subsequent recovery on c and WI have not been fully established. We examined the changes in c and WI parameters in the common carotid artery (CCA) during exercise and recovery in eight young, healthy male athletes. Ultrasound measurements of CCA diameter and blood flow velocity were acquired at rest, during five stages of incremental exercise (up to 70% maximum work rate), and throughout 1 h of recovery, and noninvasive WI analysis [diameter-velocity ( DU) approach] was performed. During exercise, c increased (+136%), showing increased stiffness with work rate. All peak and area of forward compression, backward compression, and forward expansion waves increased during exercise (+452%, +700%, and +900%, respectively). However, WI reflection indexes and CCA resistance did not significantly change from rest to exercise. Furthermore, wave speed and the magnitude of all waves returned to baseline within 5 min of recovery, suggesting that the effects of exercise in the investigated parameters of young, healthy individuals were transient. In conclusion, incremental exercise was associated with an increase in local CCA stiffness and increases in all wave parameters, indicative of enhanced ventricular contractility and improved late-systolic blood flow deceleration. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We examined hemodynamics of the common carotid artery using noninvasive application of wave intensity analysis during exercise and recovery. The hemodynamic adjustments to exercise were associated with increases in local common carotid artery stiffness and all waves’ parameters, with the latter indicating enhanced ventricular contractility and improved late systolic blood flow deceleration.


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