Vessel Angles and Diameters in Stroke Disease

Morphometric Insights Into Stroke Development: Analyzing Bifurcation Angles and Diameters of Common and Internal Carotid Arteries Using Frankfurt Plane Reoriented Images

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06756724

Enrollment

128

Registered

2025-01-03

Start date

2022-09-25

Completion date

2024-06-30

Last updated

2025-01-03

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Conditions

Control Condition, Stroke Not Otherwise Specified

Keywords

Ischemic stroke risk, Carotid artery bifurcation, Computed tomography angiography, Bifurcation angles, Vessel diameters, Carotid artery morphology

Brief summary

Retrospective analysis of internal carotid artery morphology on CT angiography images of patients with acute ischemic stroke.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 75 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Our study included 66 healthy individuals for control group. The control group consisted of individuals without any pathology or ischemia, selected from patients who underwent brain CTA for headache but showed no structural lesions. Additionally, none of the control group had a history of stroke or evidence of prior ischemic stroke on MRI.

Exclusion criteria

* After excluding patients with plaques in the carotid arteries (CCA and ICA), systemic vascular disease, risk factors for cardiogenic stroke, cardioembolism, ischemic stroke due to vasculitis or drug use, and other uncommon causes of stroke, 62 ischemic stroke patients were included in the study.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Internal carotid artery angle (degree measure)	1 week	The effect of angle degree change at the bifurcation point of the internal carotid artery on acute ischemic stroke
Internal carotid artery diameter (cm)	1 Week	Effect of internal carotid artery diameter (cm) on acute ischemic stroke.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Internal carotid artery angle and diameter	1 Week	Statistical evaluation of the effects of changes in internal carotid artery diameter (cm) and angle (degree) on acute ischemic stroke using logistic regression analysis.

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results