Intima media thickness measurement in children: a statement from the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology (AEPC) Working Group on Cardiovascular …

R Dalla Pozza, D Ehringer-Schetitska, P Fritsch… - Atherosclerosis, 2015 - Elsevier
Atherosclerosis causing cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in the
developed world. Early precursors of vascular changes–subclinical atherosclerosis–warrant …

[HTML][HTML] Why patients with familial hypercholesterolemia are at high cardiovascular risk? Beyond LDL-C levels

V Bianconi, M Banach, M Pirro, ILE Panel - Trends in Cardiovascular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a common genetic cause of elevated low-density
lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) due to defective clearance of circulating LDL particles. All FH …

Dietary intervention to reverse carotid atherosclerosis

I Shai, JD Spence, D Schwarzfuchs, Y Henkin… - Circulation, 2010 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—It is currently unknown whether dietary weight loss interventions can induce
regression of carotid atherosclerosis. Methods and Results—In a 2-year Dietary Intervention …

Deep learning‐based carotid media‐adventitia and lumen‐intima boundary segmentation from three‐dimensional ultrasound images

R Zhou, A Fenster, Y Xia, JD Spence, M Ding - Medical physics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Quantification of carotid plaques has been shown to be important for assessing as
well as monitoring the progression and regression of carotid atherosclerosis. Various …

A voxel-based fully convolution network and continuous max-flow for carotid vessel-wall-volume segmentation from 3D ultrasound images

R Zhou, F Guo, MR Azarpazhooh… - … on Medical Imaging, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vessel-wall-volume (VWV) is an important three-dimensional ultrasound (3DUS) metric
used in the assessment of carotid plaque burden and monitoring changes in carotid …

Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging

A Fenster, DB Downey - Annual review of biomedical …, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Two-dimensional viewing of three-dimensional anatomy by conventional
ultrasound limits our ability to quantify and visualize a number of diseases and is partly …

Cardiovascular risk stratification in familial hypercholesterolaemia

M Sharifi, RD Rakhit, SE Humphries, D Nair - Heart, 2016 - heart.bmj.com
Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a common autosomal-dominant disorder in most
European countries. Patients with FH are characterised by a raised level of low-density …

Is carotid intima-media thickness as predictive as other noninvasive techniques for the detection of coronary artery disease?

Y Zhang, E Guallar, Y Qiao… - … thrombosis, and vascular …, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) measured by B-mode ultrasound is the most widely
used noninvasive imaging method to assess atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk. CIMT …

Clinical utility of carotid ultrasonography in the prediction of cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes: a combined analysis of data obtained in five longitudinal …

N Katakami, T Mita, M Gosho, M Takahara… - … of atherosclerosis and …, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Aim: It remains unclear whether measures used in carotid ultrasonography such as the
intima–media thickness (IMT) and ultrasonic tissue characterization of the carotid using the …

Three-dimensional ultrasound quantification of intensive statin treatment of carotid atherosclerosis

A Krasinski, B Chiu, JD Spence, A Fenster… - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 2009 - Elsevier
This study was designed to evaluate 3-D ultrasound (3DUS)–derived vessel wall volume
(VWV), a 3-D measurement of the carotid artery intima and media, including atherosclerotic …