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| Vascular profile of dolichoectasia differs depending on the presenting symptoms | ||||||
| Jose Gutierrez1, Jennifer Carrasquillo2, Gustavo Ortiz3, Clinton B Wright4 | ||||||
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1MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
2MD, Postdoctoral fellow, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Department of Neurology, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA. 3MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Department of Neurology, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA. 4MD, MS, Associate Professor of Neurology, Departments of Neurology and Epidemiology and Public Health, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA. | ||||||
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| Gutierrez J, Carrasquillo J, Ortiz G, Wright CB. Vascular profile of dolichoectasia differs depending on the presenting symptoms. Edorium J Cardiol 2014;1:1–10. |
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Abstract
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Aims:
To evaluate the cardiovascular profile of patients with dolichoectasia and compressive versus vascular symptoms.
Methods: We diagnosed patients with dolichoectasia in a hospital-based practice and used Smoker's and Ubogu's criteria to define dolichoectasia of the basilar artery and vertebral arteries, respectively. For the anterior circulation and the posterior cerebral artery, we used two-featured criteria for dolichoectasia consisting of compression of the parenchyma and an aberrant pathway. Results: We identified 18 patients with dolichoectasia of at least one intracranial artery (mean age 56 years, median 61 years, range 32–90 years; eight patients were women, nine patients were Hispanic whites, eight were blacks, and one was white). Two out of three patients who presented with compressive symptoms attributed to dolichoectasia did not have any cardiovascular risk factors. Ten patients presented with vascular symptoms. Six of these patients were men and four were women. Excluding patients with HIV, the remaining six patients with vascular symptoms had a greater number of cardiovascular risk factors (1 to 7 risks) when compared with the group with isolated compressive symptoms (0 to 3 risks). The most affected vessels were the basilar and vertebral arteries, followed by the internal carotid and anterior cerebral arteries. Conclusion: Dolichoectasia and cardiovascular symptoms are more often found in patients who present with vascular symptoms while patients with compression symptoms less frequently have cardiovascular risk factors. The mechanism underlying dolichoectasia in patients with compressive symptoms need to be further investigated. | |
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Keywords:
Dolichoectasia, Arterial tortuosity, Vascular remodeling, Fusiform aneurysm, Arteriopathy
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Author Contributions:
Jose Gutierrez – Conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis and interpretation of data, Drafting the article, Final approval of the version to be published Jennifer Carrasquillo – Acquisition of data, Critical revision of the article, Final approval of the version to be published Gustavo Ortiz – Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision of the article, Final approval of the version to be published Clinton B Wright – Analysis and interpretation of data, Critical revision of the article, Final approval of the version to be published |
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Guarantor of submission
The corresponding author is the guarantor of submission. |
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Conflict of interest
Authors declare no conflict of interest. |
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© 2014 Jose Gutierrez et al. This article is distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original author(s) and original publisher are properly credited. Please see the copyright policy on the journal website for more information. |
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