Cardio-vascular stroke risk predicted by ultrasound

Ultrasound can be used to determine the heart of a patient to a risk-transient ischemic attack (TIA). An assessment of Operations (DBT) and therapeutic (ECD) Doppler ultrasound, published in the Open Access journal BMC Medical-Imaging, has shown that future cerebrovascular and cardiovascular ischemic events future can be said by anomalous results.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, long-term monitoring after a TIA. Dr. Holger Poppert the Technical University of Munich, Germany, worked with a team of researchers to increase the capacity of ultrasound to predict the likelihood of new vascular events in TIA-176 patients with a median follow-up 27 months. He said: "Nearly 40% of patients with disease or pathological stenoocclusive ECD results in TCD has suffered a new ischemic stroke or TIA. In addition, the detection of the reaction of guarantees to evaluate intracranial stenosis or TCD provides new cardiovascular ischemic events in the medium and long-term follow-up. "

The researchers found that 5 of 18 patients with abnormal TCD (27.8%), but only 4 of 134 patients did not (3%) at a later date cardiovascular ischemic event. Discuss these results, Poppert said: "Our results support the systematic use of TCD in later EDC TIA patients. In addition, the routine testing of coronary artery disease and prevention of aggressive therapies should TIA patients TCD pathology results.

Time ultrasound said cardiovascular events by TIA, Katrin Holzer, Suwadi SADIKOVIC, Lorena Esposito, Angelina Brink Bockel, Dirk Sander, Bernhard inhibitors and Holger Poppert, BMC Medical Imaging (in press), http://www.biomedcentral . com / bmcmedimaging /