Carotid ultrasound in coronary patients

Introduction: Carotid ultrasound as a noninvasive, accurate and reproducible method can detect small lesions of arterial wall and hemodinamic disturbances. Intima media thikness (IMT) is considered a marker for early aterosclerosis and a predictor for cardiovascular events. Aim and methods: The aim was to determine IMT in patients with coronary artery disease and to appreciate the correlation between IMT and classical cardiovascular risk factors. We studied 76 patients (48 women and 28 men) from Cardiology Clinic with average age of 66±8.8. The patients had clinic, electric or angiocoronarographic criteria for c…