Five-Year Longitudinal Study of Neck Vessel Cross-Sectional Area in Multiple Sclerosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Alterations of neck vessel cross-sectional area in multiple sclerosis have been reported. Our aim was to investigate the evolution of the neck vessel cross-sectional area in patients with MS and healthy controls during 5 years.

Materials and methods

Sixty-nine patients with MS (44 relapsing-remitting MS, 25 progressive MS) and 22 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were examined twice, 5 years apart, on a 3T MR imaging scanner using 2D neck MR angiography. Cross-sectional areas were computed for the common carotid/internal carotid arteries, vertebral arteries, and internal jugular veins for all slices between the C3 and C7 cervical levels. Longitudinal cross-sectional area differences at each cervical level and the whole-vessel course were tested wit

SUBMITTER: Pelizzari L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6128761 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature