Size of the Carotid Body in Patients with Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases Measured by Computed Tomography Angiography: A Case-Control Study

Objectives. Carotid bodies (CBs) play an important role in regulating sympathetic nervous system activity. Thus, they are likely to be enlarged in patients with certain cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The aim of this case-control study was to verify this hypothesis using computed tomography...

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Published in:Radiology research and practice 2021, Vol.2021, p.9499420-7
Main Authors: Csizmadia, Sándor, Fodor, Gergely H., Palkó, András, Vörös, Erika
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acidosis
Angiography
Blood pressure
Blood tests
Body size
Care and treatment
Carotid body
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Computed tomography
Congestive heart failure
CT imaging
Heart attack
Heart attacks
Heart failure
Hematology
Hypertension
Liver cirrhosis
Lung diseases
Lung diseases, Obstructive
Medical imaging
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Metabolism
Myocardial infarction
Nervous system
Obstructive lung disease
Patients
Respiratory diseases
Software
Statistical analysis
Sympathetic nervous system
Variance analysis
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Summary:Objectives. Carotid bodies (CBs) play an important role in regulating sympathetic nervous system activity. Thus, they are likely to be enlarged in patients with certain cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The aim of this case-control study was to verify this hypothesis using computed tomography angiography (CTA). Methods. We retrospectively analysed 141 CTAs including 16 controls, 96 patients with only hypertension (HT), 12 with HT and previous acute myocardial infarction (AMI), 9 with HT and heart failure (HF), and 8 with HT and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We assessed the data using analysis of variance, with p
ISSN:2090-1941
2090-195X
DOI:10.1155/2021/9499420