Plaque ImagingBACKGROUND. The amount of coronary artery calcification is a general marker of coronary atherosclerosis and has been associated with increased risk of adverse cardiac events. On the other hand, calcification of coronary artery plaques has also been considered as a marker of plaque ...
In addition, calcification is a measure of stabilized plaque but may not always account for the noncalcified plaque burden (ie, the type that is vulnerable for rupture). Nonetheless, studies have found that CAC can reliably predict future adverse cardiovascular events, correlates well with cardiac ...
Telomere length and aortic valve calcification Ilona Saraieva, Simon Toupance, Magnus Back, Benetos Athanase Pages 81-82 select article The effect of caffeine on mental stress related cardiovascular response Conference abstractNo access The effect of caffeine on mental stress related cardiovascular respo...
Coronary artery calcification detected by EBCT occurs early in plaque development as part of the inflammatory pathophysiologic cascade of CAD19,47 and is regulated in part by a process similar to bone mineralization.48 Although not all atherosclerotic segments have detectable calcification, the area of...
99% carotid stenosis, with overall accuracy of 88%. Although CDUS is a reliable indicator of greater than 70% stenosis, it is relatively less accurate in assessing lesions with less than 70% stenosis and subtotal occlusion. In addition, significant calcification, tortuosity, access to only the...
Two types of CAC were identified: one of them was associated with calcified atheromatous masses of atherosclerotic plaques; the other was related to necroses in the fibrous plaque parts. The atheromatous masses exhibited calcareous deposits as fine-grained masses of small extent. In chronic CHD, ...
OCT was used to evaluate the mechanism of action of IVL quantifying the coronary artery calcification (CAC) characteristics and calcium plaque fracture. These investigators enrolled a total of 628 patients with a mean age of 71.8 years, 77.1 % men. In these patients, the left anterior descending...
In the patient group, reduction in calcification volume was 48.1±10.3%, reduction in coronary diameter stenosis over calcified plaque was 52.4±24.2%. Our results suggest that the novel de-blooming algorithm could effectively decrease the blooming artifacts caused by coronary calcified plaques, and ...
Atherogenic index of plasma and coronary artery calcification progression beyond traditional risk factors according to baseline coronary artery calcium score Article Open access 07 December 2020 The effects of lipid-lowering therapy on coronary plaque regression: a systematic review and meta-analysis Ar...
Coronary calcification improves cardiovascular risk prediction in the elderly. Circulation. 2005;112(4):572-577.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 9. Newman AB, Naydeck BL, Ives DG, et al. Coronary artery calcium, carotid artery wall thickness, and cardiovascular disease outcomes in adults 70 to 99 ...