Ischemic stroke
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria: patients with carotid plaques who underwent dual-energy CTA and healthy controls without plaques; more complete clinical examination data (e.g., lipids, glucose, homocysteine, etc.); and clear clinical manifestations (e.g., with or without history of stroke or TIA).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Other serious comorbidities affecting the study analysis (e.g. acute inflammatory disease, malignancy); poor image quality or inability to perform dual-energy parametric analysis; and those with missing clinical data.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Zeff;vascular stenosis degree; | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| iodine concentration;slope of the spectral curve (k);Fat volume fraction;maximum plaque thickness;maximum plaque thickness of the?non-calcified portion;plaque length; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology