Vessel Wall Imaging of Cerebrovascular Disorders.
Kyle C KernDavid S LiebeskindPublished in: Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine (2019)
VWI aids in distinguishing and diagnosing intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD), intracranial dissections, central nervous system vasculitis, reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome, and moyamoya disease. VWI may help predict recurrent stroke in ICAD, treatment effects in vasculitis, and disease progression in moyamoya. VWI also identifies ruptured intracranial aneurysms and may predict stability of unruptured aneurysms. Implementing VWI as an adjunctive imaging technique may permit earlier and noninvasive discrimination of rare vasculopathies. However the prognostic utility of VWI for more common cerebrovascular pathologies requires further validation.
Keyphrases
- middle cerebral artery
- high resolution
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- atrial fibrillation
- genome wide
- optic nerve
- internal carotid artery
- case report
- cerebral ischemia
- brain injury
- gene expression
- antiretroviral therapy
- endovascular treatment
- dna methylation
- fluorescence imaging
- mass spectrometry
- optical coherence tomography