[FMD]Cardiovascular, Flow mediated dilation, FMD, Endithelial function, Intima Media Thickness, IMT, Quipu
New Generation Smart FMD Analysis !
Just connection to Ultrasound System !
FMD(Flow-mediated dilation)
The assessment of the endothelial dysfunction
Cardiovascular risk
A complete analysis of the carotid artery by measuring the increase of thickness and stiffness and the presence of plaques
A software program for assessing markers of cardiovascular risk from ultrasound images.
Assessment of endothelial function and assessment of carotid stiffness and intima media thickness.
Endothelial Function and Atherosclerosis
- The endothelium plays a central role in the initiation, progression and clinical outcomes of atherosclerosis.
- Flow-mediated dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery is an established non-invasive method used to assess endothelial function.
- FMD response is related to cardiovascular risk factors such as smoking, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, diabetes and aging, and is an independent predictor of cardiovascular events.
- Endothelial dysfunction is one of the earliest detectable signs of atherosclerosis in patients ranging from youngsters to adults.
- FMD can be measured by ultrasound imaging.
- The examination consists in measuring brachial artery diameter at rest and after reactive hyperemia induced by ischemia of the forearm.
- The measurement is made on a B-mode section of the artery, which is imaged above the antecubital fossa in the longitudinal plane.
Carotid Stiffness and Intima Media Thickness
- Arterial stiffness in the development of cardiovascular disease.
- Assessment of arterial stiffness is increasingly used in the clinical assessment of patients. Measurements on superficial arteries (mainly the carotid artery) can be performed using ultrasound together with tonometry.
- This approach provides optimal conditions for a precise determination of arterial stiffness, because in this way the measurement is directly obtained from the change in pressure driving the change in volume, i.e., without using any mathematical model of the circulation.
- Ultrasound imaging can also provide the value of the Intima Media Thickness (IMT), a measure of the thickness of the artery.
- This measurement is now widely used and well-accepted as an index of atherosclerosis.
- The stiffness and thickness of the artery can be combined to provide a value for the elastic properties of the arterial wall material (Young’s elastic module).
Movie Data
FMD Assessment
Carotid Stiffeness Assessment
Contact & Ask
Medical Research Center
TEL : 02 553 0923
www.mdksystem.com
