Background Occlusion of the internal carotid artery (ICA) may extend into the middle or anterior cerebral artery (ICA-T) or be confined to the intracranial (ICA-I) or extracranial segment (ICA-E).

Various conditions can lead to carotid artery neck pain. For instance, some people experience carotidynia, which is inflammation of the blood vessels. Carotid artery dissection can also cause pain ...

Background Challenging anatomy for carotid artery access can result in a delay to achieve successful recanalization in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Our objective was to study emergent direct ...

Cerebral blood flow (CBF) is vital for delivering oxygen and nutrients to the brain. Many forms of orthostatic intolerance (OI) involve impaired regulation of CBF in the upright posture, which results ...

Diagnostic ultrasound is a valuable modality and is not contraindi ... These estimates indicated that during some Doppler blood flow examinations, temperature elevations could exceed 1 °C. Computed ...

Background and Purpose: Transcranial Doppler (TCD) has been widely used ... were found between the MFV values of the middle cerebral artery (MCA), anterior cerebral artery (ACA), and internal carotid ...

The carotid artery is an essential part of the systemic circulation ... Another strength is that B-mode ultrasound and Doppler ultrasound were conducted at six locations of bilateral common carotid ...

Ultrafast ultrasound imaging offers parameters helping at characterizing the carotid plaque by shear wave elastography and Ultrafast Doppler (UFD ... disappearing in the anterior wall of the carotid ...