Keywords:
Arteries / Aorta, Ultrasound-Colour Doppler, Diagnostic procedure, Inflammation
Authors:
M. Gharbi, A. Khlifi; Tunis/TN
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-1348
Results
The mean age of the patients was 26 years.
Colour Doppler sonography and angiography were performed in all cases.
The most striking sonographic feature was the presence of concentric arterial wall thickening (Figure 1 and 2).
The proximal subclavian artery was abnormal in 10 of 40 cases (Figure 3).
A high resistive flow pattern was demonstrated in diseased vessels compared with carotid wave-forms of control subjects (Figure 1,2 and 3).
Subtle mural irregularity,
minor stenotic lesions and areas of stenosis in branch vessels were missed by duplex evaluation.
Two fusiforme dilatation accoured in the carotid arteries,
four in the axillary arteries (Figure 4),
five aneurysms in the subclavian arteries and two aneurysms in the abdominal aorta.
The thoracic aorta and occasionally major arterial branches in the abdomen were impossible to evaluate with ultrasound in 15 patients (37.5%) (Figure 5).