Relationship between Vascular Tortuosity Rate and Atherosclerotic Risk Factors in Patients with Carotid Artery Stenosis
Masanori Tsuji, Fujimaro Ishida, Yoichi Miura, Takenori Sato, Yume Suzuki, Hideki Kanamaru, Kazuhiro Furukawa, Takeshi Okada, Keiji Fukazawa, Ryuta Yasuda, Yasuyuki Umeda, Naoki Toma, Hidenori Suzuki · 2026
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Description
Masanori Tsuji and colleagues measure how twisty the neck arteries are in three dimensions and relate the winding to classic risk factors, in a 2026 retrospective study. Patients with narrowed carotid arteries often have tortuous ones too, but older two-dimensional judgments disagreed about what drives the twisting. From magnetic resonance scans of ninety-six patients, the team rebuilt 168 arteries in 3D, traced their centerlines, and computed a tortuosity rate comparing the curved path with the straight-line distance.
In the common carotid segment, greater twisting came with age past sixty-five, overweight body mass, high total cholesterol, and high triglycerides. In the internal segment, overweight and high systolic pressure were the partners. The authors suggest the quantitative winding rate works as a visible summary of accumulated atherosclerotic risk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Masanori Tsuji, Fujimaro Ishida, Yoichi Miura, Takenori Sato, Yume Suzuki, Hideki Kanamaru, Kazuhiro Furukawa, Takeshi Okada, Keiji Fukazawa, Ryuta Yasuda, Yasuyuki Umeda, Naoki Toma, Hidenori Suzuki |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32928 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |