Carotid Plaque Strain Indices Were Correlated With Cognitive Performance in a Cohort With Advanced Atherosclerosis, and Traditional Doppler Measures Showed no Association.
Carol C K MitchellStephanie M WilbrandThomas D CookNirvedh H MeshramCatherine N SteffelRebecca NyeTomy VargheseBruce P HermannRobert J DempseyPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2020)
Traditional velocity measurements of the maximum bulb-ICA PSV, mean MCA velocity, and PI were not associated with cognitive performance in patients with advanced atherosclerotic disease; however, maximum CPSIs were associated with cognitive performance. These findings suggest that cognition may be associated with unstable plaque rather than blood flow.