The CAC score can help reclassify patients’ risk and provide more accurate treatment decision support [4, 5]. In recent years, in addition to the traditional Agatston score, other measurement indicators of CAC, such as the CAC mass, volume, number and distribution area of lesions, have ...
Moderator's view: Vitamin D deficiency treatment in advanced chronic kidney disease: a close look at the emperor's clothes. Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association... Carmine,Zoccali,Francesca,... - ...
The treatment period may have been too short to obtain a complete therapeutic effect. Therefore, a long-term, larger-scale, and double-blinded study in which the drugs are administered to patients with high risk hyperlipidemia is needed in the future. Furthermore, a selection bias may be ...
Therefore, arterial remodeling processes affecting medial elastic properties are directly relevant in risk profiling and as treatment targets. 3.1.1. Cellular Components and Hypertension High blood pressure is a multifactorial disorder in which genetic alterations, environmental factors and comorbidities ...
Whereas CN is an established mechanism of plaque destabilization found in up to 8% of ACS cases [13], data on SCP and CP are still limited. This OCT review will focus mainly on the implications of calcification pattern on plaque vulnerability, how it influences treatment and management, and ...