Correlations between the atherosclerotic changes of femoral, carotid and coronary arteries

Carotid Artery Plaque and Progression of Coronary Artery Calcium: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

“…Autopsy studies have shown co-existence of lesions in both arterial beds 4, 17-19 . Studies have shown the presence of coronary lesions in patients with carotid artery disease 1, 3 and the presence of carotid artery stenoses in patients with coronary artery disease 2, 20 .…”

Correlation of atherosclerosis between different topographic sites is highly dependent on the type of hyperlipidemia

“…Correlation studies based on histological analysis of autopsy samples are rare. In a recent autopsy study in stroke patients, the severity of atherosclerosis in the external carotid arteries and in the deep femoral arteries showed a moderately strong correlation with atherosclerosis in the left anterior descending coronary artery (r = 0.51 and r = 0.46, respectively) [6].…”

Peripheral Arteries May Be Reliable Indicators of Coronary Vascular Disease

“…For reference, a notable study performed by Dalager et al () that similarly investigated atherosclerosis by using histopathology included 100 subjects. While a separate vascular histopathology study by Molnár et al () examined 40 cadavers. It would be interesting to know if the findings of these studies could be extended to include a larger sample size.…”

“…Ebrahim et al () recorded a relationship of atherosclerosis development between the bifurcation point of the carotid and the common carotid arteries. Molnár et al () demonstrated multiple correlations, most notably of the external carotid and femoral arteries between the coronary arteries that were even stronger than the correlation that was found between the coronary and common carotid arteries. Hulthe et al () observed a correlation between the combined thickness of the two inner tunics of the blood vessel wall (hereafter, intimae‐media thickness).…”