Noninvasive Cerebrovascular Diagnosis (eBook)

John J. Bergan MD is founder of The Vein Institute in La Jolla and is a staff surgeon at Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, California, USA. Ali F. AbuRahma, M.D. is Professor of Surgery at the Robert C Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University, Charleston, West Virginia, USA. Dr Bergan is a world-renowned vascular surgeon who has already authored or edited thirty textbooks, nine of which are on venous disorders, including, for Springer, Chronic Venous Insufficiency: Diagnosis and Treatment with Jeffrey Ballad (1-85233-172-0) and Atlas of Endoscopic Perforator Vein Surgery with Peter Gloviczki (3-540-76171-3). Dr Bergan and Dr AbuRahma have collaborated previously and were the editors of the Springer title Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis (1-85233-128-3), which was published in November 1999.

Table of Contents 6
Overview of Cerebrovascular Disease 7
Overview of Various Noninvasive Cerebrovascular Techniques 24
Duplex Scanning of the Carotid Arteries 34
The Role of Color Duplex Scanning in Diagnosing Diseases of the Aortic Arch Branches and Carotid Arteries 63
Vertebral Artery Ultrasonography 71
Transcranial Doppler Sonography 77
Ultrasonic Characterization of Carotid Plaques 101
Carotid Plaque Echolucency Measured by Grayscale Median Identifies Patients at Increased Risk of Stroke during Carotid Stenting. The Imaging in Carotid Angioplasty and Risk of Stroke Study 123
Duplex Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Temporal Arteritis 129
Duplex Ultrasound Velocity Criteria for Carotid Stenting Patients 135
Use of Transcranial Doppler in Monitoring Patients during Carotid Artery Stenting 141
Use of an Angle-Independent Doppler System for Intraoperative Carotid Endarterectomy Surveillance 150
Clinical Implications of the Vascular Laboratory in the Diagnosis of Cerebrovascular Insufficiency 157
Index 181