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CircumferentialdegreeofcarotidcalcificationisassociatedwithnewischemicbrainlesionsaftercarotidarterystentingPengLv1#,AihuaJi2#,RanyingZhang1,DaqiaoGuo3,XiaoTang3,JiangLin1
1DepartmentofRadiology,ZhongshanHospital,FudanUniversityandShanghaiInstituteofMedicalImaging,Shanghai,China;2DepartmentofRadiology,BeijingJishuitanHospital,Beijing,China;3DepartmentofVascularSurgery,ZhongshanHospital,FudanUniversity,Shanghai,China
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Correspondenceto:JiangLin.DepartmentofRadiology,ZhongshanHospital,FudanUniversityandShanghaiInstituteofMedicalImaging,FenglinRoad,Shanghai,China.Email:lin.jiang
zs-hospital.sh.cn.Background:Therelationshipbetweenplaquecalcificationandnewischemicbrainlesionsaftercarotidarterystenting(CAS)remainscontroversial.Thepurposeofthisstudywastodetermineifthecircumferentialdegreeofcarotidcalcificationisassociatedwithnewischemicbrainlesionsondiusion-weightedimaging(DWI)afterCAS.
Methods:Atotalof96patientswithcarotidstenosisof≥50%whounderwentCASwereenrolledinthestudy.Allpatientsunderwentpreoperativecarotid