Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an umbrella term used to describe a longstanding disease or condition that causes the progressive loss of kidney (renal) function. Symptoms vary, depending on the stage ...

University of Rochester Medical Center. Health Encyclopedia. Blood urea nitrogen. Pottel H, Delanaye P, Cavalier E. Exploring Renal Function Assessment: Creatinine, Cystatin C, and Estimated ...

Applying ultrasound to help break up thrombus during carotid endarterectomy ... with symptomatic or asymptomatic internal carotid artery stenosis ≥ 70% to either sonolysis or a sham intervention ...

Methods: Patients who underwent coronary angiography and peripheral vascular ultrasound were randomly selected for semi-quantitative analysis of the degree of coronary artery and peripheral vascular ...

Purpose: We aimed to investigate the differences in plaque characteristics ... (1) ultrasound or magnetic resonance angiography or computed tomography angiography revealed a bilateral internal carotid ...

David Školoudík, Ph.D., from the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic, and colleagues examined the effectiveness and safety of sonolysis using a low-intensity 2-MHz pulsed wave ultrasound ...

Opens in a new tab or window Sonolysis, an application of therapeutic ultrasound ... for people averaging 80% internal carotid artery stenosis, sonolysis resulted in reductions in 30-day: Combined ...

Ultrasonography as a diagnostic modality for the diagnosis and surveillance of carotid stenosis has been a mainstay of clinical practice for decades.12 Ultrasound is non-invasive, does not use ...

Whether the long-term benefit of stroke prevention when stenting is added to medical therapy (MT) over MT alone for symptomatic severe intracranial artery stenosis offsets the perioperative risks of ...