Contrast-enhanced carotid color-coded duplex sonography for carotid stenting follow-up assessment.
Proper assessment of endovascular patency after carotid stent (CS) placement with carotid color-coded duplex sonography (CCCD) can be difficult. We investigated the usefulness of contrast-enhanced (CE) CCCD for post-CS follow-up. CCCD images could not depict the entire bloodstream in overlapped stents and in highly positioned stents. CE-CCCD images, however, did provide anatomic information almost equivalent to that of intra-arterial angiography. CE-CCCD is useful in screening for post-CS restenosis.
Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
Kazumichi
K
Yoshida
Kazuhiko
K
Nozaki
Ken-Ichiro
K
Kikuta
Akiyo
A
Sadato
Susumu
S
Miyamoto
Nobuo
N
Hashimoto
D000368:Aged; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D002339:Carotid Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D016893:Carotid Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D003287:Contrast Media; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011134:Polysaccharides; D012008:Recurrence; D015607:Stents; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color; D014654:Vascular Patency
D003287:Contrast Media; D011134:Polysaccharides; C059891:SHU 508