H. Nagai, M. Tsuji, Hirotake Eda, F. Nakagawa, Mizuki Kambara, Tsutomu Yoshikane, Shinya Hagiwara, H. Nakau, Takeshi Miyazaki, Y. Akiyama
{"title":"Doppler ultrasonography of the ipsilateral vertebral artery with high-grade stenosis of the subclavian artery: a series of 12 cases","authors":"H. Nagai, M. Tsuji, Hirotake Eda, F. Nakagawa, Mizuki Kambara, Tsutomu Yoshikane, Shinya Hagiwara, H. Nakau, Takeshi Miyazaki, Y. Akiyama","doi":"10.2301/NEUROSONOLOGY.30.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2301/NEUROSONOLOGY.30.18","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction : Proximal stenosis of the subclavian artery (SCA) shows progression to subclavian steal syndrome (SSS)/phenomenon (SSP), characterized by retrograde flow in the ipsilateral vertebral artery (VA). Here we describe the clinical manifestations and ultrasound findings of ipsilateral VA in patients with high-grade stenosis of the SCA, and the role of VA ultrasound in percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) stenting of the SCA. Patients : Twelve patients (male: 10, female: 2; age: 17–86 yr) were selected from among inpatients with SCA stenosis treated in our department between 2009 and 2015. Results : The affected vessel was the left in 8 cases and the right in 4. The causes of stenosis were atherosclerosis in 10 cases, congenital in 1, and arteritis in 1. The symptoms were dizziness, faintness, syncope, diplopia, dysar-thria, rest pain, coldness and arm claudication on effort. The cases were divided into SSS (n=7), SSP (n=2), and SCA stenosis only (n=3). The Doppler flow patterns were classified as normal antegrade (n=3), bunny waveform (n=0), alternating (n=6), reverse (n=2), and not detected (n=1). Ten of the patients underwent PTA stenting and 2 conservative therapy. Conclusions : Alternating and reverse flow patterns in the VA might lead to the surgical indication for PTA-stenting of SCA.","PeriodicalId":40206,"journal":{"name":"Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics","volume":"63 1","pages":"18-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88898036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuko Yasuhara, T. Tanioka, K. Takase, Yueren Zhao, K. Motoki, T. Azekawa
{"title":"Evaluations of muscle echogenicities in patients treated with second generation long acting injectable antipsychotics","authors":"Yuko Yasuhara, T. Tanioka, K. Takase, Yueren Zhao, K. Motoki, T. Azekawa","doi":"10.2301/NEUROSONOLOGY.30.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2301/NEUROSONOLOGY.30.13","url":null,"abstract":"This study demonstrated 3 patients with schizophrenia under treatment with risperidone (RLAI), paliperidone (PLAI) and aripiprazole (ALAI) (one case each). Quantitative diagnostic ultrasound imaging has been proposed as a method of estimating muscle quality using echogenicities. Grayscale histogram analysis of Photoshop Premiere Elements 14.0 was used to determine the muscle tissue echogenicity in a region of interest (ROI). The pre- and post-injected SG-LAI echogenicities were analyzed using a paired t -test with a significance level of 5%. Each SG-LAIs could be illustrated as high echogenic masses with acoustic shadowing. The corresponding grayscale histogram values of selected ROI in the injected muscles were significantly increased in all cases. It was considered that the diffusion states of SG-LAIs by ultrasonography were important time course evaluations providing objective evidence.","PeriodicalId":40206,"journal":{"name":"Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics","volume":"21 1","pages":"13-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84600147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sadao Shimizu, O. Yamamura, Hideto Okamoto, M. Shibata, S. Ueda, K. Endo, Tasuku Saito, K. Hanzawa
{"title":"Study of factors perpetuating deep vein thrombosis in areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake","authors":"Sadao Shimizu, O. Yamamura, Hideto Okamoto, M. Shibata, S. Ueda, K. Endo, Tasuku Saito, K. Hanzawa","doi":"10.2301/NEUROSONOLOGY.30.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2301/NEUROSONOLOGY.30.43","url":null,"abstract":"1) Research Laboratory Department, National Hospital Organization Awara Hospital 2) Community Medicine Promotion Course, School of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui 3) Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Makabe Hospital 4) Department of Respiratory Surgery, Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital 5) Department of Neurology, Sendai City Hospital 6) Clinical Laboratory Department, National Hospital Organization Miyagi National Hospital 7) Department of Respiratory Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Niigata University","PeriodicalId":40206,"journal":{"name":"Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics","volume":"80 5 1","pages":"43-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89566197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keigo Matsumoto, Naoki Hashimura, Z. Li, Toshiki Nagai, K. Matsuda
{"title":"Characteristics and therapies of mobile lesions in the carotid artery","authors":"Keigo Matsumoto, Naoki Hashimura, Z. Li, Toshiki Nagai, K. Matsuda","doi":"10.2301/NEUROSONOLOGY.29.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2301/NEUROSONOLOGY.29.22","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile lesions of the carotid artery, which can generally be found by ultrasonography (US), are treated as unstable plaque. Mobile lesions ≥2 mm in diameter were observed for 7 patients (6 men, 1 woman) treated in our hospital between January 2002 and July 2015. Mean age was 67.8 years (range, 52-84 years). Diagnosis was major stroke in 1 patient and transient ischemic attack/minor stroke in 6 patients. Surgical treatment was performed in 6 cases: carotid endarterectomy in 4 and carotid artery stenting in 2. The remaining patient did not undergo surgery because of a marked reduction in size of the mobile lesion after observation for 5 days. Surgical intervention was performed at a mean of 20 days (range, 1-52 days) after onset. None of the 6 operated patients had any complications pre- or postoperatively. We proposed four mechanisms for mobile lesions on imaging, based on pathological findings and responses to antithrombotic therapy: floating plaque entangled with ulcer edge; mobile thrombus adherent to ulcer edge or erosion of the plaque; pulsatile dissected arterial wall; and oscil-lating lodged embolus in the carotid artery. Choosing the operative procedure and timing in accordance with the underlying mechanism is important.","PeriodicalId":40206,"journal":{"name":"Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics","volume":"58 1","pages":"22-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78532407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Takahito Nishihira, H. Takekawa, M. Okamura, R. Okabe, Keisuke Suzuki, A. Iwasaki, A. Suzuki, Y. Tsukahara, K. Hirata
{"title":"Risk factors for deep venous thrombosis in patients with acute stroke","authors":"Takahito Nishihira, H. Takekawa, M. Okamura, R. Okabe, Keisuke Suzuki, A. Iwasaki, A. Suzuki, Y. Tsukahara, K. Hirata","doi":"10.2301/neurosonology.29.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2301/neurosonology.29.28","url":null,"abstract":"脳卒中の急性期では下肢麻痺や長期臥床,うっ血性心 不全の併発による静脈還流のうっ滞により,下肢深部静 脈血栓(deep venous thrombosis: DVT)を併発する例 が存在する .DVTは肺塞栓症の原因となり,予後不 良の転帰を示すことから,急性期からDVTの予防,早 期発見が重要となる. 脳卒中に対するDVT予防に明確なエビデンスはない ものの,弾性ストッキングの着用が勧められていた . しかし脳卒治療ガイドライン 2015では,脳出血に対し て弾性ストッキングの使用は推奨されておらず,脳梗塞 に対しても明らかな予防効果は示されていない .し たがって,現在では間欠的空気圧迫法による予防が主体 となるが,医療資源の問題からすべての脳卒中患者に対 して施行するのは困難と考えられる. そこでわれわれは脳卒中の急性期においてDVTを併 発する患者の危険因子を明らかにするため,急性期脳卒 28 Neurosonology 29(1):2016","PeriodicalId":40206,"journal":{"name":"Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics","volume":"23 1","pages":"28-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88599167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Usefulness of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of superficial soft-tissue head lesions in children","authors":"K. Nonaka, K. Ichihashi","doi":"10.2301/NEUROSONOLOGY.29.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2301/NEUROSONOLOGY.29.13","url":null,"abstract":": Pediatric patients presenting with head masses are not rare. However, it is difficult to make a diagnosis based solely on clinical findings. Although CT or MRI can be used for diagnosis, the former has problems associated with radiation exposure. In addition, pediatric patients must be sedated for examination using these methods. Ultrasonography can be performed easily at the bedside, and using a high-frequency probe, it is possi-ble to obtain high-resolution images that surpass MRI images. Here, we report the usefulness of ultrasonography for the diagnosis of superficial soft-tissue head lesions in two children. Case 1 : A 6-month-old girl was referred to our hospital due to a pulsatile mass in the midline of the occipital re-gion. Ultrasonography showed a compressible, hypoechoic, tubular structure, and its vascular communication between the superior sagittal sinus and extracranial vessel through the cranial defect was detected by the color Doppler method. A diagnosis of sinus pericranii was made. Case 2 : A 7-month-old boy was referred to our hospital due to a swelling in the right temporal region. Scalp he-matoma and skull fracture were confirmed by ultrasonography. The patient was closely observed without treat-ment until the fracture healed. Conclusions : Ultrasonography is useful in the diagnosis of superficial soft-tissue head lesions in children. As ultrasonography can be performed repeatedly and noninvasively, it is useful not only for diagnosis, but also for fol-low-up.","PeriodicalId":40206,"journal":{"name":"Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics","volume":"1 1","pages":"13-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79049205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}