Abstract #0665
Evaluation of Distribution of Femoral Artery Atherosclerotic Disease in Asymptomatic Old Adults Using 3D MR Vessel Wall Imaging
Maobin Guan 1 , Huijun Chen 2 , Zhu Zhu 1 , Le He 2 , Qiang Zhang 2 , Niranjan Balu 3 , Chun Yuan 2,3 , and Xihai Zhao 2
1
Department of Radiology, Yangzhou First
People's Hospital, Yangzhou, China,
2
Center
for Biomedical Imaging research, Department of
Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University School of
Medicine, Beijing, China,
3
Department
of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,
United States
This study investigated the atherosclerotic plaque
distribution in different femoral artery segments of
asymptomatic old adults by 3D MR vessel wall imaging. We
found that femoral artery plaque was prevalent in old
adults, particularly in the segment of popliteal artery
segment of femoral artery. After normalized the natural
vessel size along femoral artery longitudinally, we
found that popliteal artery segment showed the largest
plaque burden as measured by NWI among all femoral
artery segments. Our findings suggest that more
attention needs to be paid to the popliteal artery
segment of femoral artery in old adults for
atherosclerotic disease care.
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