Carotid ultrasound is a painless test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the insides of the carotid arteries. While the test can be very helpful in preventing a stroke ...

Carotid ultrasound is a test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the insides of the two large arteries in your neck. These arteries, known as carotid arteries, supply your ...

Detection of CP and carotid-intima media thickness (cIMT) were measured using carotid ultrasound. A total of 60 patients with RA and 60 members of the control group were included in the analysis.

Learn how ultrasound measurement of carotid plaque area and volume is emerging as a powerful new tool for measuring atherosclerosis burden.

New research from NYU Langone Medical Center shows that a simple, inexpensive and noninvasive carotid artery ultrasound of the neck can be used as a preliminary diagnostic tool for coronary artery ...

The vast majority of imaging tests that result in carotid revascularization of asymptomatic patients are performed for “uncertain” indications, with as many as one in nine carotid ultrasounds ...

Outside the U.S., international organizations are pretty unanimous in condemning the routine screening of asymptomatic patients with carotid ultrasound.

Ultrasound of the carotid artery gives doctors a safe, easy way to gather accurate data. At the same time, they are not forced to have their patients suffer through radiation or any invasive ...

Although the prevalence of carotid artery stenosis, or carotid artery disease, in the U.S. is low, the outcome of not treating the disease can be life changing.

Compared with IMT, measurement of carotid plaque volume by three-dimensional ultrasound reduces by two orders of magnitude the sample size and duration of treatment needed to evaluate new therapies.

Carotid artery ultrasound images were taken to measure carotid artery intima-media thickness and adventitial diameter.