Sonographic Criteria for Carotid Stenosis: What do the main guidelines recommend?

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Speaker

Fernanda Costa Sampaio Silva, MD, Brazil

• Vascular Surgeon and Vascular Sonographer
• Member of Brazilian Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery (SBACV)
• Director of Publications Department of SBACV, section Bahia
• Member of SVS- Society for Vascular Surgery, International Relations Committee

Learning Objectives

• Review of the carotid-vertebral anatomy
• Ultrasound instrumentation and patient positioning
• Normal sonographic parameters of the carotid-vertebral system
• Diagnostic criteria and classification of carotid stenosis
• Morphological evaluation of the carotid plaque: identifying potentially embologenic plaques
• Criteria for the diagnosis of in-stent and post-endarterectomy stenosis
• PRACTICAL TIPS: recommendations for screening of carotid disease and post-intervention follow-up

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