e-Article
Feasibility and relevance of compound strain imaging in non-stenotic arteries: comparison between individuals with cardiovascular diseases and healthy controls
Document Type
article
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Source
Cardiovascular Ultrasound, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017)
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Language
English
ISSN
1476-7120
Abstract
Abstract Background Compound strain imaging is a novel method to noninvasively evaluate arterial wall deformation which has recently shown to enable differentiation between fibrous and (fibro-)atheromatous plaques in patients with severe stenosis. We tested the hypothesis that compound strain imaging is feasible in non-stenotic arteries and provides incremental discriminative power to traditional measures of vascular health (i.e., distensibility coefficient (DC), central pulse wave velocity [cPWV], and intima-media thickness [IMT]) for differentiating between participants with and without a history of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Methods Seventy two participants (60 ± 7 years) with non-stenotic arteries (IMT 0.05). A higher CS or RS was associated with a higher DC (CS: r = −0.32;p