BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:
Many imaging studies focused on the assessment of volume atrophy, structural damage, and abnormal functional connectivity (FC) in patients with carotid artery stenosis disease. Our purpose was to investigate the differences in dynamic functional connectivity within the contralateral brain in patients with chronic ICA occlusion using resting-state fMRI.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
In this trial, 21 patients with chronic occlusion of the ICA (17 men and 4 women) and 11 patients…