Preoperative cervical carotid artery contrast-enhanced ultrasound findings are associated with development of microembolic signals on transcranial Doppler during carotid exposure in endarterectomy

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
5599624	Atherosclerosis	2017	7 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Preoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasound findings of the cervical carotid arteries are associated with development of MES on transcranial Doppler during exposure of the arteries in CEA, and the predictive accuracy of contrast-enhanced ultrasound is greater than that of GSM.

Keywords

Contrast enhancement Carotid endarterectomy microembolic signals Ultrasound

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Preoperative cervical carotid artery contrast-enhanced ultrasound findings are associated with development of microembolic signals on transcranial Doppler during carotid exposure in endarterectomy

Authors

Kohki Oikawa, Tadayoshi Kato, Kazumasa Oura, Shinsuke Narumi, Makoto Sasaki, Shunrou Fujiwara, Masakazu Kobayashi, Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, Jun-ichi Nomura, Kenji Yoshida, Yasuo Terayama, Kuniaki Ogasawara,