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Assessment of structural changes that occur in large extracranial and intracranial arteries in patients with Behcet's disease


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Patients will be selected from Rheumatology and Rehabilitation inpatient and outpatient clinics in Assiute University Hospital Patients under 16 years old, patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and all other risk factors affecting blood vessel intimal thickness will be excluded from the research. All patients and control groups underwent a complete extracranial and intracranial ultrasound assessment by 2 experienced neurovascular sonographers .The ultrasound examination was done at the Neurovascular Ultrasound Laboratory in the Neurology department, Assiut University hospitals using a color-coded duplex ultrasound device Philips HD5 (Philips Medical Systems, Nederland B.V.) for the carotid and vertebral arteries and for the intracranial arteries. Intimal medial thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA), peak systolic velocities (PSVs) and end diastolic velocities (EDVs) were measured in the common, internal, and external carotid arteries (CCA, ICA, ECA) with L 3-12 MHz linear transducer probe and when stenosis was detected the velocities were measured at the maximally stenotic area. The intracranial arteries were evaluated in all patients with transcranial color-coded duplexsonography (TCCS) with the use of a low-frequency (2- to 5-MHz) phased-array probe through the transtemporal acoustic bone window. The middle cerebral artery (MCA), intracranial segment of vertebral artery (V4)and basilar artery (BA) were examined. Peak systolic velocity (PSV) and flow direction (antegrade or reversed) used for the diagnosis of any intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD). The findings and the atherosclerotic changes in the extracranial and intracranial vessels were interpreted according to the internationally published data Data will be analyzed using the computer program SPSS ;


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NCT number NCT04738864
Study type Interventional
Source Assiut University
Contact Esraa A Talaat, lecturer
Phone 01003314717
Email Esraa_ahmed@aun.edu.eg
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date March 2021
Completion date August 2021

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