Why the study?
Does carotid plaque stiffness measured by supersonic shear imaging correlate with serum homocysteine levels and symptomatic ischemic stroke in ischemic stroke patients?
Does carotid plaque stiffness measured by supersonic shear imaging correlate with serum homocysteine levels and symptomatic ischemic stroke in ischemic stroke patients?
Supersonic shear imaging can quantitatively evaluate carotid plaque stiffness, which correlates with serum homocysteine levels and symptomatic ischemic stroke, potentially aiding in vulnerable plaque assessment.
Should not yet change plaque assessment; hypothesis-generating for stiffness in stroke risk stratification, needs prospective validation.
Supersonic shear imaging could be used to quantitatively evaluate stiffness of both echolucent and echogenic carotid plaques. More importantly, SWVs of plaques were not only correlated to serum homocysteine level, but also associated with symptomatic ischemic stroke, suggesting that SSI might be useful for understanding more about VP.
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Shang et al. (2018) studied this question.
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