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Noninvasive Imaging of the Carotid Artery

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Handbook Of Complex Percutaneous Carotid Intervention

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Abstract

Noninvasive carotid artery evaluation is an essential tool to assess patients who are at risk of atherosclerotic carotid artery disease because digital subtraction angiography is invasive and carries a 0.3-1% risk of periprocedural transient ischemic attack or stroke. Currently, duplex ultrasound, computed tomography angiography, magnetic resonance angiography, and transcranial Doppler are available to noninvasively evaluate the severity of carotid artery disease. The relative merits and limitations of each technique are reviewed in this chapter. Key Words: Computed tomography angiography, duplex ultrasound, magnetic resonance angiography, transcranial doppler.

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  1. Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Jacqueline Saw MD

  2. Department of Interventional Cardiology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología “Ignacio Chávez,”, Mexico City, Mexico

    J. Emilio Exaire MD

  3. Interventional Cardiology, Hillsboro Cardiology, Hillsboro, OR

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  4. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Jay S. Yadav MD

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Exaire, J., Mazighi, M., Saw, J., Abou-Chebl, A. (2007). Noninvasive Imaging of the Carotid Artery. In: Saw, J., Exaire, J.E., Lee, D.S., Yadav, J.S. (eds) Handbook Of Complex Percutaneous Carotid Intervention. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-002-7_6

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