Assessing Impact of High-Dose Pitavastatin on Carotid Artery Elasticity with Speckle-Tracking Strain Imaging.

CONCLUSIONS: Short-term treatment with high-dose pitavastatin improved carotid artery elasticity measured by speckle-tracking method, but not conventional parameters by B-mode ultrasound. Speckle-tracking-based measurements may allow the early noninvasive assessment of statin effects on vascular function in hypercholesterolemic patients. PMID: 29515050 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis - Category: Cardiology Tags: J Atheroscler Thromb Source Type: research