Carotid atherosclerosis and cognitive impairment in nonstroke patients

WH Chen, W Jin, PY Lyu, Y Liu, R Li, M Hu… - Chinese Medical …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: As a vascular risk factor, carotid atherosclerosis is crucial to cognitive impairment.
While carotid intima-media thickness, carotid artery plaque, and carotid stenosis can reflect …

Histopathologic validation of grayscale carotid plaque characteristics related to plaque vulnerability

CC Mitchell, JH Stein, TD Cook, S Salamat… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2017 - Elsevier
Inflammation and angiogenesis play major roles in carotid plaque vulnerability. The purpose
of this study was to determine whether gray-scale features of carotid plaques are associated …

Carotid atherosclerotic plaque instability and cognition determined by ultrasound-measured plaque strain in asymptomatic patients with significant stenosis

RJ Dempsey, T Varghese, DC Jackson, X Wang… - Journal of …, 2017 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE This article describes the use of ultrasound measurements of physical strain
within carotid atherosclerotic plaques as a measure of instability and the potential for …

Ultrasound Elastography: another piece in the puzzle of carotid plaque vulnerability?

A Davidhi, V Rafailidis, E Destanis… - Medical …, 2022 - medultrason.ro
Recent literature has shown that various carotid plaque features, other than stenosis,
contribute to plaque vulnerability. Features such as surface morphology and plaque …

Classification of symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with and without cognitive decline using non-invasive carotid plaque strain indices as biomarkers

X Wang, DC Jackson, CC Mitchell, T Varghese… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2016 - Elsevier
Vascular cognitive decline may be caused by micro-emboli generated by carotid plaque
instability. We previously found that maximum strain indices in carotid plaque were …

GPU accelerated multilevel Lagrangian carotid strain imaging

NH Meshram, T Varghese - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A multilevel Lagrangian carotid strain imaging algorithm is analyzed to identify
computational bottlenecks for implementation on a graphics processing unit (GPU) …

The preservation of cognition 1 year after carotid endarterectomy in patients with prior cognitive decline

RJ Dempsey, DC Jackson, SM Wilbrand… - …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE To explore the hypothesis that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) by removing an
unstable plaque may slow the course of vascular cognitive decline in both symptomatic and …

Quantification of carotid artery plaque stability with multiple region of interest based ultrasound strain indices and relationship with cognition

NH Meshram, T Varghese, CC Mitchell… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Vulnerability and instability in carotid artery plaque has been assessed based on strain
variations using noninvasive ultrasound imaging. We previously demonstrated that carotid …

[HTML][HTML] Methods in Stroke Prevention in the Wisconsin Native American Population

HJ Cress, CC Mitchell, SM Wilbrand, UV Wesley… - …, 2024 - karger.com
Native American individuals are more frequently affected by cerebrovascular diseases
including stroke and vascular cognitive decline. The aim of this study was to determine …

A cross-sectional investigation of cognition and ultrasound-based vascular strain indices

NH Meshram, D Jackson, T Varghese… - Archives of Clinical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Objective We examine the relationship between variability in the plaque strain distribution
estimated using ultrasound with multiple cognitive domains including executive, language …