RESULTS
We examined 96 patients during the first year. The population’s
risk factors are summarised in Table 2. The
number of the plaques and the mean IMT are given in
Tables 3 and 4. During the follow-up, 22 patients (21.1%)
were lost to follow-up: one had a stroke and became tetraplegic;
the others probably went to another centre.
Thirty-one patients (29.8%) died. Table 4 shows the
reduction in the IMT of carotid axis at the last assessment
(the longest time after RT), and Table 3 shows the stability
of the plaques, which generally coincided with a degree of stenosis of 30%, while only two patients had plaques
causing stenosis of 50%. During 2007, FMD was very low,
only 2.56 1.7.