💻 Learn more about carotid plaques
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👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ABC VASCULAR has launched a new video format. You can now watch a 30 seconds video and try to attempt making a diagnosis. The idea is to familiarise healthcare professionals with a variety of vascular ultrasound cases.
🔍We are going to post the case description here in the description session in one week, so stay tuned.
💻 In the video, the most relevant ultrasound findings are presented with some comments so to make a first attempt diagnosis feasible.
🧐 CASE: carotid arteries atherosclerosis disease in a patient with acute stroke.
🗒 Try to describe the carotid plaque echogenicity, surface, texture and extension within the lumen and the impact on the blood flow. Share your thoughts in the comment session.
👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️CASE SOLUTION: This video demonstrates the presence of a hypo-echoic (low echo) plaque with regular surface noted at the level of the posterior wall of the internal carotid artery (ICA). The plaque is associated to flow turbulence of the proximal ICA, as demonstrated by the presence of colour flow arising within the lumen of the ICA. The maximum peak systolic velocity recorded within the ICA at the level of the colour flow aliasing is 255cm/sec. Despite a multiparametric approach yields a high accuracy in grading carotid stenosis, the use of the PSV at the level of the stenosis is highly suggestive of a 70-79% stenosis of the proximal ICA. Hypo-echoic plaques are more likely to be linked to neuromuscular events.
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