Background And Objective: An effort has been made to distinguish the composition of carotid atherosclerotic plaques (CAP) from patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy, by laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy.
Study Design/materials And Methods: Different excitation wavelengths were used: 476, 488, and 458 nm of a continuous wave krypton/argon ion laser, and 337 nm of a pulsed nitrogen laser. Twenty-three CAP samples from different patients were investigated and several spectra from each plaque were obtained.
J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino)
June 1996
Objective: Ischemia of the spinal cord following procedures of the infrarenal abdominal aorta and the iliac arteries due to aneurysmatic or occlusive disease.
Design: Retrospective study, duration of follow up: two years.
Settings: Vascular Department of the 2nd Surgical Clinic of the University of Athens, Medical School.
Simultaneous bilateral carotid endarterectomy (SBCE) has been very rarely cited in the international literature. Twelve patients underwent 24 SBCE's (Group A). They were compared with 22 bilateral staged endarterectomies in 11 (Group B) and 155 cases with unilateral endarterectomies (Group C).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe clinical picture with the pathology findings of 89 atheromatic plaques which were removed following endarterectomy of the internal carotid artery, for the purpose of determining the clinical significance of the haemorrhagic atheromatic plaque were correlated. Intraplaque haemorrhage was determined in 44 of the 57 plaques (72.2%) of symptomatic patients while in the asymptomatic patients haemorrhage was noted in 12 of the 32 plaques (37.
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