Evaluation of Lower Extremity with Doppler Ultrasonography in the Thrombotic Poststroke Patients.
- Author:
Kil Byung LIM
1
;
Hong Jae LEE
;
Jin Young KIM
;
Yong Hoon KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Ilsan, Korea. jinnyugi@hanmal.net
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Doppler ultrasound;
Atherosclerosis;
Stroke;
Cerebral artery;
lower extremity
- MeSH:
Arteries;
Atherosclerosis;
Cerebral Arteries;
Constriction, Pathologic;
Humans;
Lower Extremity*;
Magnetic Resonance Angiography;
Pathology;
Phenobarbital;
Stroke;
Ultrasonography;
Ultrasonography, Doppler*
- From:Journal of the Korean Geriatrics Society
2005;9(3):203-209
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to evaluation of lower extremity with doppler ultrasonography in the thrombotic poststroke patients. METHOD: The subjects were 24 thrombotic poststroke patients. We analyzed the stenosis or obstruction in the lower extremity artery with a doppler ultrasound and the cerebral artery with a magnetic resonance angiography. RESULTS: In the lower extremity artery, 3 patients had the complete obstruction in one and more vessels, 7 patients had the luminal narrowing more than 50% in one and more vessels, 11 patients had the luminal narrowing less than 50% in one and more vessels. And in the cerebral artery, 9 patients had the Obstruction or stenosis of the artery without diffuse atherosclerosis, 15 patients had the arterial obstruction or stenosis with diffuse atherosclerosis, or multiple arterial pathology. CONCLUSION: In this study, poststroke patients with arterial obstruction or stenosis with diffuse atherosclerosis in the cerebral artery had more severe atherosclerotic change in the lower extremity(p<0.05). We recommended to the evaluation of a doppler ultrasound of lower extremity in the thrombotic poststroke patients with diffuse atherosclerotic change of the cerebral artery.
