Claessens J, Haseldonckx C
Department of Cardiology, St. Jozef Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.
Jpn Heart J. 1992 Jul;33(4):437-44. doi: 10.1536/ihj.33.437.
Intravascular ultrasonography of the peripheral arterial system was applied following coronarography in 56 patients with one or several critical stenoses of the coronary arteries. Even though the clinical vascular examination and the subsequent noninvasive examination of the peripheral arterial system of all these patients turned out to be completely normal, intra-arterial ultrasonography was able to reveal important atherosclerotic alterations in the wall of the abdominal aorta and of the iliac-femoral arterial system in 51 of these patients. Intra-arterial ultrasonography appears to be a very sensitive method of exploration, permitting atherosclerotic changes of the arterial wall to be detected at a very early preclinical stage, long before these deviations could have caused symptoms.
在56例患有一处或多处冠状动脉严重狭窄的患者中，在冠状动脉造影后进行了外周动脉系统的血管内超声检查。尽管所有这些患者的临床血管检查以及随后对外周动脉系统的无创检查结果均完全正常，但动脉内超声检查仍能在其中51例患者的腹主动脉壁和髂股动脉系统中发现重要的动脉粥样硬化改变。动脉内超声检查似乎是一种非常敏感的探测方法，能够在临床前期的很早阶段检测到动脉壁的动脉粥样硬化变化，远在这些病变引起症状之前。
