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Year :2016
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Month :
July-August
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Volume :
5
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Issue :
3
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Common Carotid Artery Intima Media Thickness Measurement in Cerebral Ischemic Stroke Patients Using Ultrasonography:
A Prospective Study
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Correspondence Address :
Merwyn Fernandes, Niharika Prasad, Ajith R Mahale, As hvini Kumar,
N
ishith Shetty, Channabasapa Chavadi, Priyanka Adurthy,
Dr. Merwyn Fernandes,
Assistant Professor, Department of Radio Diagnosis,
KMC Hospital, Attavara, Mangaluru-575001, India.
E-mail: Merwynb4u@gmail.com
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Introduction: Introduction: Cerebral ischemic stroke is the third leading cause of death in the world. Atherosclerotic changes in carotid artery and ischemic stroke have been studied and found to have a close relationship.
Aim: This study was done to assess the carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) using high frequency sonography and to correlate it with cerebrovascular accidents.
Materials and Methods: This prospective study consists of 50 patients. A purposive sampling technique was used. Various risk factors of ischemic stroke mainly diabetes mellitus, hypertension,family history and smoking were noted. Using high frequency B mode 5-12 MHz linear transducer the data was gathered from ultrasonographic examination of common carotid (CCA) Statistical Analysis: The data collected was analyzed using SPSS15 for windows. No tests of significance were applied as this study deals with only frequency distribution of various factors.
Results: The highest incidence of cerebral ischemic stroke was found in males between 60 to 69 Years. In our study we found 72% prevalence of high CIMT (> 0.8mm) in patients with ischemic stroke. Among these 26 were males and 8 were females. Hypertension was found to be the most common risk factor compressing of 17(81%) patients followed by diabetes 5(71.4%) patients and smoking 14(63.3%) patients.
Conclusion: Sonographic evaluation of CIMT is a safe, economic, reproducible and less time consuming imaging technique inthe evaluation of people who are at risk of developing cerebral ischemic stroke. This can serve as useful investigation in instituting early treatment modalities.
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