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[Diagnosis of obliterating vascular processes in the supraaortic area]
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Clinical neurological investigation is key for diagnosing supraaortic vascular disease, guiding invasive angiography. This helps accurately identify and locate obliterating vascular changes.
Area of Science:
- Vascular Surgery
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Neurology
Context:
- Obliterating vascular changes in the supraaortic area require accurate diagnosis.
- Invasive angiography remains a crucial diagnostic tool.
- Clinical, perfusion-scintigraphic, and Doppler-sonographic findings guide angiography indications.
Purpose:
- To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of various methods for supraaortic vascular changes.
- To determine the role of clinical neurological investigation in guiding invasive diagnostics.
- To assess the correlation between non-invasive methods and angiographic findings.
Summary:
- Out of 390 patients, 289 showed pathological angiographic findings in the supraaortic region.
- Clinical neurological investigation proved to be a highly effective method for indicating invasive diagnostics.
- Correlation between angiography and non-invasive methods improved with the severity of extracranial vascular findings.
Impact:
- Clinical neurological assessment should be the primary factor in deciding on invasive vascular diagnostics.
- Angiography is essential for precisely determining the size and location of multiple obliterating vascular changes.
- This study refines diagnostic algorithms for cerebrovascular and peripheral arterial diseases.
Abstract:
For the diagnostics of obliterating vascular changes in the supraaortic area the invasive diagnostics of the vessels is not to be renounced now as before. The indication to the angiographic investigation results from clinical, perfusion-scintigraphic and Doppler-sonographic-findings. Of 390 patients 289 pathological angiographic findings in the supraaortic vascular area. In 101 patients normal findings were stated. Altogether 509 individual pathological findings were represented. In the comparison of the results of the investigations in the various diagnostic methods the clinical neurological investigation showed itself as particularly evident method. It should be decisive for the indication to the invasive diagnostics. The correspondence between the angiographic findings and the result of the perfusion-scintigraphic and Doppler-sonographic investigations, respectively, was the greater the more expressed the extracranial vascular findings represented themselves. In 127 patients with multiple obliterating vascular changes the size of the pathological changes and their localization could be established only angiographically.